In the brochure titled “Choose a Place Among the Few” there are these words about how one officer views Specialty Training: “…we are all warriors. It demands we act as a family , willing and able to stand shoulder to shoulder in a fight. Brotherhood is the Marine fortress. And it exists becuase we understand strength is born of common cause and kinship.”
The above quote underlines the things shared by each member of a training group. Each Marine in that group is part of a family. Still, even within a family, not everybody looks at things the same way. That is equally true among a group of Marines in training.
When Marines look back at their training, they usually tend to focus on different aspects of that training. Here is what one Marine had to say about the training he got in the Reserve Officers’ Class of 1942:
“From the memories of yesterday—when and if we ever get time to sit down and reminesce—these things will probably stand out in golden aura: memories of Quantico’s green rugged hills…memories of Power Line Trail…of Chopawamisic Creek..of welcome ten minute breaks that came too seldom…drilling the platoon on Barnett Avenue Field…of interminable Saturday inspections…of problems in strategy, where the ‘large Blue Force’ was forever advanceing astride U.S. Highway No. 1 and ‘you’ were a Second Lieutenant in charge of a macHine gun platoon…These things will live in our memories.”
