Mr. T enlisted in the United States Army and served in the Military Police Corps. In November 1975. He was promoted to squad leader. In July 1976, his platoon sergeant punished him by giving him the detail of chopping down trees during training camp at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but did not tell him how many trees, so he single-handedly chopped down over seventy trees from 6:30 am to 10:00 am, until a shocked major superseded the sergeant's orders
