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Troops were being bussed down to San Diego to board the USS Pickaway—a combat destroyer. We were to Board early on May24.
Capt. Tolleson had assigned me to be the Company liaison officer to join other officers from 2/7 in San Diego the week leading up to our departure—to assist with the process of embarkation for E Co. This meant one less week with my new baby and Kay—Lt. Boryszewski—a bachelor—had no such problem. He volunteered to replace me for that duty—a gift I’ll never forget!
Lt. Boryszewski
All in all that time was a blur—making sure our platoon was ready to ‘mount
out’—inspections, meetings, etc. and making arrangements on the home front— for the movers—for storage of our few things—arrangements for the car to be driven to the East coast by Joe Laterra and other matters of insurance, arrangements for my salary to be sent to Kay in Bramwell. etc., etc., etc.
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