Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (* February 13th, 1923) was raised in the small town (< 1,000 inh.) Hamlin, West Virginia where he attended Hamlin High School. His first experience with the military was as a teen at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, during the summer of 1939.
He has unusually sharp vision (a visual acuity rated 20/10), which once enabled him to shoot a deer at 600 yards (550 m).