How did Fury climb the ranks in 15 years?

Man I would hate to live in your grey drab world.

By the same Token that Goose is just a house pet then


Then this is just a clown named Bob Gray:





Then this is just a 1958 Plymouth Fury:






And this is just a man named Walter Paddick a former miller apprentice, who was raped at 13 and eventually changed his name to Randall Flagg: