Oral History Interview with Keifer Marshall, December 1, 2014 Page: 6

                                
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out of you in a hurry. You either got that way or they got rid of you.  If you
couldn't go through all those things, then you got... you didn't... the worst thing was to
be held over for the next group, you know.
Oh my.
I think they did that with some people, but some people just didn't fit their bill. They
got out.
Can you imagine what it would be like going through the second time?
Oh boy! I don't think the drill instructors were all the same, stamped out the same way.
Right.
They were something.
Well, you learned the rifle and the hand grenade.
Mortar.
Did you learn the pistol? Did you learn a 45?
A pistol. No I didn't have a pistol.
Sub-machine gun?
No.
Machine gun?
No. Not a machine gun. I had an M-1 rifle, that's all you needed. A lot of people had

carbines. That wouldn't kill anybody. It would knock them down but it wouldn't kill
them. But the rifle         it would do what you had to have it do.
So that's a garand.
Uh-huh. Your hand grenades the same way. They were good            but
you had to be sure about the guy that was throwing them, __ got 'em in the right place.
Do you happen to remember what your serial number was on your rifle?

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