"We had our own navy as well," said former Spc. We just trained everybody as they came in," he said. "Guys would come in, they would go out and learn on the job. But "it was a very difficult process" in transforming a military police unit into a cohesive infantry company. He had gone through infantry training back in the States, Solomonson said, and he relied on the expertise of his noncommissioned officers. They accepted the mission," which was called Operation Stabilize, and they accepted the on-the-job training in the infantry basics of combat patrolling, setting up ambushes, and perimeter defense, Solomonson said. "I didn't have a problem with troops complaining.
logistical base in Vietnam northeast of Saigon, was an exercise in adaptability, said then-Capt. "That's what we owe our citizen soldiers."įor the citizen soldiers of Bravo Company, taking on the infantry mission of deterring enemy sappers from attacking Long Binh Post, the largest U.S. "We're digitizing all of it online" for possible storage in the Library of Congress, Drew said. Once the WWII search is complete, the plan is to move on to the Korean War and then possibly later conflicts. Recently, Human Resources Command began screening more than a million WWII records, "and from that we've upgraded some awards," Drew said. In the field, paperwork could get lost or commanders may not have found time to submit the required forms, Drew said.
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