Oral History Interview with Harold E. Clay, February 25, 2015 Page: 7

                                
didn't like them, but it was compulsory to eat everything
on your plate. That's a little sideline, may be interested
in there, but the training, a lot of my training was small
arms. We used the [03?] then, we didn't have the M1, and
we used to have to break that down and put it back together
again. We did that constantly.
MZ: Did you spend a lot of time at the rifle range?
HC: I think we were at the rifle range two or three weeks.
We'd completed over half our training at the base, then we
went out to the rifle range. I'd never gotten by a rifle
in my life. I wasn't very good at it.
MZ: Oh, really?
HC: Yeah.
MZ: What did you -- do you recall -- I've heard that there are
different kinds of badges or sharpshooter, marksman, and
like expert rifler?
HC: I had the lowest one. I don't -- the lowest one wasn't
marksman.
MZ: Did you like firing a rifle?

HC: It was an experience, exhilarating experience, I had never
done it before. I remember drill says "Keep your damn eyes
open when you pull the trigger."
MZ: What about any hand to hand combat or anything like that?
HC: We went through, how am I going to say it, we went through

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