Navy:
Island Life

        After my grandfather went through the ordeal of being drafted into the navy he served sometime at training school learning how to become a radioman.  He flunked out of radio school and was offered a job driving trucks; the thing was that he didn't have a license.  He hadn't even driven a car before.  But he took it because he needed something to survive.  Once the United States got heavily involved in the war they sent him over to the  Philippines.  He remembers being shipped to San Francisco where they stuck so many shots in his arm he couldn't stand straight.  He was then loaded on a ship for the grueling 30 day cruise.  He was stationed on a small island in the Philippines  where he sewed tarps for cargo ship covers and the covers for the guns on big ships.  He did this for 18 months until the war was over.  After the war was over he was still there and so was everybody else.  He just wanted to go home and finally it was his turn.  He went home and married my grandmother.