VOLUME 4
MONDAY, 7 JANUARY, 1946
MORE THAN 50,000 ,MARINES PASS THROUGH CAMPEN ON WAY BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE
MAN WHO LED 28TH ,MARINES 'tlETURNS HERE
First Marine Regime~tal Commender of World War II to command his unit from the date of its inception until it was deactivated. is the unique honor held by Colonel Harry Liversedge )f Pine Grove. Calitornia, who ~rned to the states Saturday 'th elements of the 28th Marine Regiment. Colonel Liversedge, colorfully known among Marines as HHar_ ry the Horse," was recently re~ '. rurned from overseas where he had been in command of the First Provisional Raider Regiment, when he was glvel\ the job , of molding the 28th as part of the Fighting Fifth Division. For seven months at CamPen Colonel Liversedge supervised a bgid, thorough and practical training schedule within his new co m.rn and, and turned out a smooth-functioning rifle regiment. In October 1944, the 28th Marines embarked for further training at an overseas base, ith Colonel Liversedge still in mmand. Continued on Page 5
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.More than 50,000 Marines havo passed through the portals of CamPen's Redistribution Regiment since it went into opera~ tion, it was reported. Of that number, 15,000 1l9.V~ been discharged from separation company here an'd 35,000 havo Mr. and Mrs. John Folk of Riv- been transferred to other centers erside, California left CamPen for separation. CamPen has been last Saturday with their son, CpJ. handling this great number of Joseph Folk, recently returned men because all organized units from overseas with the 28th Mar- returning from the Paci4"ic war ines, 5th Division. Mr. and Mrs. zones arrive here for screening, Folk take with them memories ot processing, discharge (IT transfer. an eventful 24 hours spent here At the present tim ...., members due to the efforts ot Lt. Clark, of the Fifth Division arc being billeting officer at Tent Camp No. transported front hel at tbe 2. rate of nearly 700 per day while Parents of the serviceman arriv- some are being discharged f;rOUl ed at CamPen Friday evening to facilities in CamPen. Dischargesee Cpl. Folk, newly arrived a- rate is reported to be more than board the S. S. Goshen. On a'!:rival 200 per day. here they learned their son was Units of the Third and Fifth still on duty aboard ship. Maiuly Divisions make up most of Rethrough the efforts of Lt. Clark, distribution Regiment's customquarters were found for them in ers at the present time, with a. a Quonset hut in T.C.2 area in great number of the Second Diwhich they spent a "very com· vision arriving here under thefortable night," their first such r"ifth Division banner. This 0<>' experience on a military base. A curred when the divisions traded happy reunion was effected Sat- high and low point men overurday morning when CpI. Folk seas, allowing the high-pointers arrived to find his parents wait- of the Second til return for dising for him. charge. Capt. Ferguson, Commandiug Redistribution Regiment has Officer, Hqs. Co., 28th Marines, been able to turn loose its clerfurther ce:nented the good rela- ical help that was eligible for tions between the public and the discharge, but frozen and held as Marine Corps by granting the ser- essential. Arrivat of organized viceman holiday leave. units here for processing which greatly reduced the amount of paper work necessa.!'Y, made this possible. More officers than ever before . are being processed for discharge The U. S. Employment ServIce here, it was reported, with nearreported a record total of 9,000,ly 900 passing through redistri000 visits for jobs, unemplo;,,rment bution facilities. compensation and employment inMore than 800 Negro troops, formation during OctOber. Placelnem bel'S of service an<i depot ments of veterans increased, companies, as well as a few from reaching 119,100 in nonagriculantiaircraft units, were discharged tural jobs. Approximately half of the recently. CamPen's separation company placements of World War II veterans were in unskilled occupa- came to the aid of Marine Corps tions with more than one-third Base, San Diego, shortly before in skilled and semi-skilled jobs. Christmas, discharging 400 men One-tenth were for clerical and who overflowed separation J'Ilt8.. sales jobs. chinery there.
PAR,ENTS LIVE IN HUT HERE AWAITING SON
Bus Haclmey
BUS HACKNEY RETURNS AFTER PACIFIC JAUNT Corp. Walter F. "Buster" Hackney of Houston, Tex., who is a fonner sports writer for the Pendleton Scout, has returned from a tour of overseas duty and is preparing for discharge.
~ LICENSE PLATES
Hackney, who served as combat correspondent with the Second Division, viewed and reported on the atom bomb damage of Nagasaki. An eye-Witness story of the devastated Jap city appears Representatives from the Au- elsewhere in this issue of the tomobile Asso"ciation of Souther.n Scout. . California will sell 1946 license He also took part in the initial plates at 12-G-1, provost marlanding and invasion of Okinawa shal's office, on Tuesday, Jan. and wrote n~merous stories on the ~5, it was revealed. Manne actlvlty there. In all, Hours for the sale of plates Hackney churned out 402 stories will be: 1900 to 1130 and from On his overseas jaunt. 1230 to 1630. California renewals will be ,andled at the provost marshal's office. Outof-state renewals or out-of-state licensees desiring Cal)fornia plates must transact their Effective 31 December 1945 the business with our Department of Combat Swimming Company, Motor Vehicles, Third and Cedar Staging Regiment, was disbandstreets, . San Diego. ed. It is requested that all persons availing themselves of this Effective 1 January 1946 a service have the correct change Combat Swimming Platoon was 'n cash, together with their Teg- activated as a unit of Head. r~~ion slip before approaching quarters and Service Company, lSSU1~g desk. . Staging Regiment.
,·rO BE ISSUED )HERE JAN. 15
COMBAT SWIMMING COMPANY DISBANDS
VET PLACEMENT ISHOWS INCREASE