Just for the sake of accuracy, it wasn't a term, it was a commitment.
Unless
the definitions have changed, terms apply to enlistments and commitments
apply
to lengths of service. In any event, whatever you choose to call it, he
didn't
complete it.

Can you really blame him? He was the son of an important family...

Yes. He can easily be blamed. One of FDR's closest advisers -- Harry
Hopkins, I believe -- had a 19 year old son killed on Iwo Jima.

Walt