Originally Posted By: MarkOue
Anyway, Merv Haines asked me many questions about boot camp and the Marines before he acknowledged that he had served. He said, I was a cook at a place called the Chosen Reservoir. They told me that everyone could cook for themselves. I picked up my rifle and went to the line.



61 years ago this month at the Reservoir, the PLA learned the hard way the credo of the Corps "Every man a rifleman" when they concentrated attack on what they thought was the soft underbelly--heavy equipment operators, supply, cooks, clerks. My last living uncle was a machine gunner at Chosin with the 1st Marine Division, 5th Marines under Col. Raymond Murray. He's 86, proudly wears a burr cut and is old boot tough.