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Show o I w nt t the c mpany command r. I said " hi i bull hit, y u kn . We were out on patrol and I understand that they've eaten all the turk y - that' all right. ut now the mess sergeant says you're not going to feed us." And he said "What did he say?" I said "He's not going to feed us." He said: "Oh, he'll feed you!" So he went to the battalion commander, his name was Cushman (he became commandant - that's the lead general in the marine corps), and we got fed. It was c rations heated, you know, but it was food. You know, now, I got the same thing in Korea. I had a patrol out, we got gypped out - I always got gypped out of the food! And then, one other time in Korea. We come off the lines - now, when I - in Korea, they used the marine corps the way they're supposed to be used ... We were shock troops. So, the army's on line and they're ... the front has calmed down in front of them. There's not much action. So they stay there. Then, the line opens up and, boy, they're catching action hot and heavy. Then they call in a marine unit- a battalion or the regiment - and we come up and, for some reason, we always had to go twelve miles. I don't know why the twelve miles. You get off the truck and hike twelve miles, then you'd go behind this army unit and begin that night. The next morning, we jump off the attack. When the fighting is the most fierce, that's when we'd jump off. Then, you'd fight in that front until the action calmed down, until they found out, "Wait; that's the marine corps. This isn't army. Let's beat it!" Or 68 |
