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- Title
My Marine Corps.
- Authors
Lacy, Robert
- Abstract
This article discusses the author's experience in the Marine Corps. He spent his time in the service during the peacetime, which covered 1955 to 1959. He joined the Marines when he was eighteen to get out of East Texas, a region of the United States which was not progressing in the early 50s. His mother was a widow, and she worked very hard to make life better for them. He went through boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California. He stated that the worst maltreatment he witnessed in boot camp happened at the Camp Matthews rifle range where they underwent marksmanship training. It involved serious physical contact to one of his co-trainee, which was severely enough to send his companion to the hospital.
- Subjects
SAN Diego (Calif.); EAST Texas; FIRST person narrative; NARRATION; MILITARY education; MARINES; BASIC training (Military education); SHARPSHOOTING (Military science); UNITED States. Marine Corps; TRAINING
- Publication
Sewanee Review, 2006, Vol 114, Issue 2, p314
- ISSN
0037-3052
- Publication type
Article