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Jacob Ochs
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Well done. Congratulations.

 

Re-reading this thread, I'm still astonished at how the recruiter jerked you around. I enlisted in the Army at the height of the Vietnam "conflict." There was no fooling around, no BS. I enlisted in Connecticut. At that time, Fort Dix, NJ, was a Basic Training post, and most of the recruits showed up at the processing center in New Haven, took the oath, and immediately stepped onto a bus that took them to Fort Dix.

 

I enlisted for Combat Engineer MOS, and Fort Leonard Woods, MO, was the engineer training center. I took the oath with all the draftees going to Dix, but they handed me a chit for a plane ride to Missouri and I left the same day for Fort Lost in the Woods. No fooling around, not waiting in some hotel somewhere.

 

Of course, the month I took the oath was the month with THE highest number of inductees for the entire duration of the Vietnam debacle.

Ft Lost in The Woods?. I was A Co 554 Engineers.
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