Oral History Interview with Joe Clapper, August 28, 2010 Page: 5

                                
JC: So all in all, it was a damn good experience. Then we went
up to, shipped us up to Elliot after we finished boot, and
went through advanced training up there.
FC: Camp Elliot?
JC: Camp Elliot, yeah. I think that's Pendleton now --
FC: Mm-hmm.
JC: -- but it was Elliot at the time. And -- (audio
distortion; inaudible)
FC: And what was your specialty when you went up there?
JC: Just an infantryman.
FC: Rifleman?
JC: Rifleman, that was it. And we got assigned, formed us up,
and we got down in San Diego and got on board the ship and
sailed out from there. But we [went lone wolf?]; it was
just an old Liberty ship all by herself. We headed west
for about two days, and then we headed southeast. We went
southeast for, God, two weeks or more.
FC: You had no idea where you were headed?
JC: None, none, absolutely.

FC: Now, what outfit were you in? 1st Marine...?
JC: 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. L Company, Love Company they
called it then. It's Lima now. That's where I was
assigned. But anyway, after we get southeast there, then
we turn back west for a couple weeks or so and wound up in

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