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Show if ! have to do this give me a marine division.' You kn w. JAS: And you think it all sort of stems from this one encounter? BILL: Yeah. Up until then, there wasn't that hatred. And now there probably isn t that same hatred because all of old guys are gone. I mean, you know, MacArthur ... All of the old school. The First World War people. They' re all gone. And there's very few of us Second World War people left. So it's gradually dying out. Okay, what next? JAS: So, the raiders? After San Diego, you get advanced training? BILL: Yeah. If you're going straight infantry, you went to Camp Elliott - that's just outside of San Diego. And that was called "line camp." "Line" means infantry. You're on the line. Now, it's ITR, infantry training regiment, but then they called it "line camp." If you went tanks, you went to Jack's Farm. If you went to Amtracks, amphibious training, you went to Delmar. If you went to raider school, you went up to Camp Pendleton. There wasn't a Camp Pendleton there - Camp Pendleton was there, but the only things were the tent camps; they called them tent camps because that's what they were, they were just tents. There was first, second and third tent camps. There was one at Homo, at Las Polgos, San Margerita and one other. And you lived in tents. The officers lived right in the tent with you; there wasn't any distinction between them. There was distinction because they're officers and there is a distinction, but as far as having separate quarters or anything, they didn't. Elliott Roosevelt, President Roosevelt's son, was a raider. Look at that: the President of the United States and his son is a raider (the most hazardous job that you could get). He' s a raider along with Carlson ... 16 |
