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that, he had to be tough.
Pasqua couldn’t address him with a straight face, so Hoare became Hoars' (“Horr-ray”) for the duration.
Soong, who was born in China, was a top athlete, beating the rest of us in PT.
Coblyn was a Japanese kid who had been adopted by an American family as a child.
He was one of the few who really wanted to go to OCS and have a career in the Army.
Not all were cut out for Army life. Among the draftees were two men who desperately wanted out.
Meagans, who came to us from somewhere in the U.K. and was living in L.A. when he got his draft notice, was a true conscientious objector, and should never have been in the Army. He refused to pick up a weapon, and was eventually reassigned to a Medic unit.
Halfway through the training cycle, Clausen, a German, claimed that he had started seeing human faces on the targets on the M-16 rifle range.
He convinced the Army psychiatrists that he was a Section 8 — mentally unfit. Clausen managed to pull off something that Cpl. Klinger on “M*A*S*H” never did, and was gone.
Movin’ out
After BCT, we were assigned our MOS (military occupational specialties) and sent on to advanced individual training, or AIT. Most of us were 11B — light weapons infantry.
Since Fort Ord was an infantry training base, many of the “International Platoon’s”
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