Served in the Marine Corps beginning in 1944 (at age 18), in Navy officer training. He was involved through 1947, at the bases in Quantico, VA and Lejune, N.C. His last rank was first lieutenant.
In 1951 he was called back in during the Korean War to Quantico, VA and then Quonset Point, R.I. (N.A.S.), assigned to navy-marine security force, through the summer of 1952.
The only thing I remember my father saying about this was that most of the men he was with during the Korean War were sent over to Korea and most of them were killed. He told me he was probably physically in the best shape he'd ever been in, having spent some previous summers very involved in mountain climbing in Colorado. He did not know why he was not sent to Korea, except that the Lord had other plans for him.
Submitted by Sarah Lockhart Wilpitz
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