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To: O6ret

I've tried to tell 'em Colonel. What did you do during that two years to switch over?


108 posted on 03/29/2007 4:42:46 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny

It all kind of fell into place after that. Before I left Whitehall Street--the location in lower Manhattan where all the NYC draftees reported for their initial physical exam and appitude testing--I was told that I had done very well on the initial battery of exams. From there we were bussed to the old Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn for a flight in a C-47 down to the Reception Station at Ft Jackson, SC. During the week of indoctrination at Jackson (prior to going to Basic Training at Ft Gordon) I was asked if I wanted to take the test for OCS. I said yes, passed it, and the rest is history. I was commissioned in less than 11 months from the day I was drafted following Basic, AIT (12B) and Engineer OCS at Ft Belvoir.


196 posted on 04/01/2007 9:33:17 AM PDT by O6ret
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