 At West Point , Brown was roommates with John Norton , future US Army lieutenant general . Brown once again played polo , and was captain of the team in his senior year , when the West Point team lost in the final to Princeton University . In that year he was also cadet captain and regimental adjutant . He would have liked to have joined the cavalry on graduation like his father , but his standing as 342nd in his class was too low for an appointment to the cavalry . Instead , he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry on graduation on 11 June 1941 . However , he volunteered for Air Corps training . At West Point he met Alice ( Skip ) Colhoun . An Army brat like himself , Alice met George at a party her father had thrown for the sons of the graduates of the class of 1913 . George and Alice dated for over a year , and were married in 1942 . Their marriage produced three children , two boys and a girl . 
