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What Makes a Marine. In postwar Japan, Craig spent several months teaching amphibious tactics to Douglas MacArthur's 1st Cavalry and 24th Infantry Divisions, now in Korea. From April 1949 to his departure for Korea, Craig was the 1st's assistant division commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in charge of training under bull-roaring Graves B. ("The Big E") Erskine, a stickler for perfection who "turned over" (i.e., relieved) 15 colonels in one year.* To marines, the fact that Craig survived under Erskine is the proof that he is good...
...Pendleton, the 1st's postwar training was the most rugged and exacting that any peacetime U.S. outfit got. Explained one Marine officer: "A kid reports for boot camp and we challenge the s.o.b., we dare him to try and be a Marine. We give him so much of that in boot camp-and even flunk some of them out-that when he gets out, he's the proudest damn guy in the world, because he can call himself a United States Marine. He's nothing but a damn private but you'd think...
These sounds across the nation were only an industrial murmur. The most reverberating martial noises came from the West Coast. For several days last week, vehicles rolled along Route 101 from the Marines' Camp Pendleton to the Navy's station at San Diego. Forty-five-ton Pershing tanks lumbered across the beach and into LCTs. Buses disgorged men in green camouflaged uniforms who boarded attack transports...
...Northwest was a place which provided prerogatives for the average man. Pendleton, Ore. had a country club whose dues were only $6 a month for a family, and its membership included a bakery driver, a farm-implement clerk and two gas-station grease monkeys. This was still unusual, but almost anyone in the Northwest could ski or fish for salmon practically at his front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity...
...striding senior from Seattle, will take the mile, with teammate Frank Elfinger second and Dave Cairns third. Eli Ed Mearns is close to 9:30 in the two-mile, and teammate George Dole and Harvard's Bill Baker can also score. Charlie Durakis can take the hurdles, but Brian Pendleton of the Blue figures to lead Pat McCormick...