Camp National Military Park Camp La Jolla Military Park

Image: Historical Society The Tour The Camp La Jolla Military Park offers ways to create Camp Matthews [5], known as Marine Rifle Range, “Match FA 59,” reveals it was manufactured in 1959 at Those who supported the introduction of a University of a relationship to the past and present activities of this La Jolla prior to the entrance of the into the Frankfort Arsenal and was probably shot from a Mili- California campus in San Diego envisioned a steady flow space. This brochure provides an overview of the many World War II, was a firing range located where UCSD tary .30-06 Springfield rifle. of engineering and science graduates to supply an able things to see and learn at camplajolla.org. is now. At its peak during the war it brought as many workforce to the burgeoning local defense industry. In- as 9,000 men through every 3 weeks. Marines marched Scripps Institution of Oceanography [10] is one of the dustrialist John Jay Hopkins, founder of General Atomics, Camp Callan [1] was built up from downtown San Diego, practiced shooting their oldest centers for ocean research in the world. Since made a $1 million pledge [13] to help construct UCSD as a in 1940 as a Coast Artillery rifles, and left. 1912, Scripps has been part of the University of Califor- technical research institute. That, with the city’s promise Corps replacement train- nia. During WWII, scientists at Scripps worked with the of land for an undergraduate university convinced the UC ing center for new induct- Located at the former rear entrance to Camp Matthews, Navy to detect German U-boats, and played a key role in Regents to open a campus in San Diego. ees. About 15,000 men this sentry booth [6] remains in place on the UCSD planning the D-Day invasion by developing a system for went through a 13 week campus. The drawings and graffiti on the inside of this forecasting waves. The outset of the Cold War brought UCSD is not unique in its integration training cycle with an structure mark the moments when young Marines from even more ambitious projects to Scripps’ doorstep. Dur- of DoD funding and defense-based emphasis on modern coast all over the United States stood watch here. ing the 1960s, led by director Roger Revelle, it became engineering and science curricula. artillery and anti-aircraft defense weapons. Today, the the core around which UCSD was built, thereby sharing A 2002 report by the Association of site contains a variety of developments including: the Bill Brigham [7] did his Marine rifle training at its history of scientific research and cooperation with the American Universities, suggests nearly and a section of the University Camp Matthews. Twenty years later he re- U.S. military with the new university. 350 universities conduct Pentagon- of California at San Diego (UCSD). A few foundations turned for graduate studies. Upon discovering funded research. (Turse 35) [2] are all that remain of the base. the memorial to Camp Matthews [8] he realized Roger Revelle [11] was a scientist and scholar who was he had returned to his former place of training. instrumental in the formative years of UCSD. He was In 1961, Physicist Herbert York [14], Steve Bosan [3] did his basic training as a Private at Chief Oceanographer for the U.S. Navy’s postwar nuclear became the first chancellor of UCSD. Camp Callan in 1942-43. He fought in Europe during This spent bullet tests, leading the oceano- His background made him a prime WWII and retired from the Army as a Colonel. These case [9] was recov- graphic and geophysical candidate to help realize the goals of the defense con- drawings [4] illustrate the surveillance and shooting ered from one of components of Operation tractors who had hoped the university could supply a systems training at Camp Callan. At 85 years old Mr. the former Camp Crossroads at the Bikini steady engineering workforce. He worked on the Man- Bosan was still able to recall this training in detail, even Matthews rifle Atoll, and Operation Wig- hattan Project during World War II, became the University though he never used it after he left Callan and headed ranges. The stamp wam [12], off the coast of of California Livermore National Laboratory’s first Direc- to Europe. on the bottom, San Diego. tor, and was Chief Scientist of DARPA.

About Camp La Jolla Military Park Camp La Jolla Military Park is a of an educational institution ing ongoing military prepara- In a museum, objects, events, evokes the museum in name relationships that were not pre- ship to the history of this place Requiring multiple definitions of collection of objects, sites, and that works with the defense tion as a service to the nation. and imagery are archived and and mission by placing sites, viously visible. In a time of vast in order to understand its each entry encourages the con- events that bring the past and industry. The cultural form of military organized according to their events, and participants into information gathering, the da- current uses. The interface is tinued questioning and resolu- the present together in order museums also makes war nec- relationships to each other. an archive. tabase becomes the appropriate analogous to a military recon- tion of their relationships. to preserve a moment in our In 1949 the U.S. War Depart- essary by glorifying men and Camp La Jolla Military Park is a form through the ability to store naissance system, allowing ongoing military heritage. Just ment was reorganized as the machines, justifying its means database that uses this process Like the museum, Camp La and provide multiple options for the ability to plot locations This military-like surveillance of as museums make the history Department of Defense (DoD). with an end. The museumi- of recording to understand the Jolla is defined by the process its representation. on a map, identify and record the institutions and networks of war tangible, this project This conglomeration unified fication of warfare becomes University of California, San of collecting. Its compilation relationships between partici- involved in the matrix of defense represents the history and the branches of the military to necessary to its production. Diego’s relationship with indus- required interviews, research, This database uses geographic pants, and provide keywords creation can be made tangible current research curriculum share resources while codify- trialized defense. This project and exploration of sites to find coordinates, creating a relation- to facilitate comprehension. through the vernacular form Touring the Battlefield

UCSD Extension [15] has (CCAT) [21]* a partnership The University of Califor- been providing courses to between academia, indus- nia, San Diego is involved meet the needs of the San try, and government. CCAT in the manufacture of Diego community since facilitates discoveries of defense in many ways. The 1966. The Extension’s De- technologies that address land it inhabits was for- fense Technology Program priority DoD and home- merly a military base for provides education and land defense needs from training soldiers for aerial training to San Diego’s de- the research laboratory to defense. Now it is a new fense industry. They offer fense industry, the Jacobs the commercial market- site for training—providing classes in defense technol- School now has that role. place and finally, to the a steady supply of engi- ogy including; Electronic battlefield. neering and science gradu- Warfare, Missile Defense, Student teams in the ates to nearby defense Radar Systems Analysis, Jacobs School conduct re- The UCSD Triton Job and contractors. Information Warfare, Sur- search and develop prod- Internship Fair [22] attracts veillance and Reconnais- ucts for local businesses in- employers who create The daily, eardrum-shatter- sance Engineering, and cluding the arms industry. technologies for the mili- ing blasts of U.S. Marine Multi-target/Multi-sensor The projects are conceptu- tary. Students line-up at jets from nearby M.C.A.S Tracking. alized and funded by the booths, resumés in hand, Miramar [23] concludes this defense contractors who while defense contrac- benefit from the research. tors distribute marketing Notable participants brochures, keychains, logo include: General Atomics emblazoned stress balls. [17], Raytheon Systems, The defense contractors, Northrop Grumman, and subcontractors, and mili- SPAWAR [18]*. tary agencies that recruit at UCSD job fairs and Originally founded by the tour of the military park. University of California, The billions of dollars spent San Diego (UCSD), on research to develop the CONNECT [19] seeks to technologies enabling this create partnerships be- practice routine coalesce The Jacobs School of tween the university and into a visual and aural Engineering [16] at UCSD private enterprises includ- display of military superior- is the largest engineering ing the defense industry ity encouraging researchers school in the University of (MAXIM Systems, SAIC influence curriculum by on the ground who are all California system. While [20], SPAWAR). CONNECT funding defense-related practicing maneuvers in the Scripps Institution of affiliates include The Cen- student and faculty re- defense of nation. Oceanography was the ter for Commercialization search are some of the original portal to the de- of Advanced Technology largest in the world.

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(continued from front) government to conserve the Register of Historic Places describe it. Locating history on shifts also. The construction of of military heritage. Just as objects and spaces from critical (NRHP) classification for types a map, like a national park tour, this park, inspired by the fact Park Hours April 21–25, 2008, 1–4 pm, Marcuse Gallery, University of California, San Diego the methodology of collect- moments in our nation’s his- of properties. The types, which is an accessible form of delivery that this university is located April 15–June 15, 2008, daily, Geisel Library ing overlaps with those of tory. This definition is applied are used by the National Park that enables us to form rela- on a former military base and, historical preservation, so too to the Camp La Jolla data- System in their designations, tionships, defining ourselves like many others, conducts re- Reception Friday, April 25, 7–9 pm; Performance at 7:30 pm does the collection borrow base and its contents in order are building, district, object, within the context. search and collaboration with the name and presentation to preserve this moment of site, and structure. Similar to the defense industry, intends Tours upon request of the park. The designation, global conflict. this form of classification, the As the public use of the word to combine the past and pres- “National Military Park,” brochure, website, and exhibi- for war migrates again, from ent, to question the continued Park Website http//camplajolla.org is reserved for battle sites Objects in this collection tions of the collection create defense, now to security, our training of young Americans in preserved by the U.S. federal adhere to the U.S. National an interface by attempting to relationship to its production the service of defense.