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Jim Griffith, Class of ’63, Glendora Campus June 4, 2011, Palm Springs, CA, Bi-Annual Reunion Ok Oral History Transcript Interviewer: Sharon V. Milligan Oral History Candidate: Jim Griffith, Class of ’63, Glendora Campus June 4, 2011, Palm Springs, CA, Bi-Annual Reunion Ok. This is Sharon Milligan. I’m in Palm Springs at the BMA Reunion and it’s June 4th and I’m interviewing an alumni from the college and could you tell me your name, your address, your age, your class-year and your school? Ok, I’m Jim Griffith, I was the Class of 1963 at Brown Military Academy. -And what’s your address? My address is 3758 East College Avenue, Visalia, California. -Excellent. So you’re here at the reunion and I’m just very curious, you went to what institution? -Brown Military Academy. In what city? Glendora, California. So tell me, how did you get there and why did you end up there? My dad was in the aerospace industry in the late-50s, early 60s and he travelled around a lot, so it was easier, rather than change schools all the time, my mom suggested that I go to a boarding school and I said if I’m going to go to a boarding school, I’d rather go to a military school, and that’s how I got started off at Southern California Military Academy in Long Beach, grades 6 through 9 and then transferred to Brown Military Academy, their sister-school in Glendora, California. And what was that transition like, leaving one academy to another? The transition was very easy because going from Southern California, I already knew how to march, I already knew the system, basically, so it was a very, very easy transition. And did you have classmates that went with you? I had about-I think there was three of us that transferred over. So how old were you then at Brown, when you ended up at Brown? I was-9th grade, I was 15. Ok, so you know, just share some of the experiences you had with faculty or classes, living on the dorm; what was that like for you? Living in the dorm was a lot of fun. It turned out my first roommate was a senior, which was really rare, to be paired with a senior. So I kind of wound with a little bit of extra privileges, so it made it a little easier. So most people were paired with the same age-group, like why do you think you ended up with a senior? Oral History Transcript Interviewer: Sharon V. Milligan Oral History Candidate: Jim Griffith, Class of ’63, Glendora Campus June 4, 2011, Palm Springs, CA, Bi-Annual Reunion Probably just the way it fell, I’m assuming. That I have no clue to why and-but it made life a little easier and the guy that I was paired with was real good friends with our battalion staff, the cadets that were in charge of the whole thing, and I had a brother that lived just about 8 miles away that was 22 at the time, and the battalion staff liked to party on weekends, so my job was to get them their supplies that they needed, and I won’t say anything more about that. Well, everyone’s got their responsibilities. That’s exactly right. Any kind of faculty that stands out, positive or negative? Yes. No actual teacher really stands out in my mind. Of the ROTC staff, the military advisors, there were two of them-there was actually three of them-we had four ROTC sergeants assigned to our school and our-the commandant was a major in the United States Army, active duty. The ROTC sergeants, there was three of the four that really stood out and they were rough and tough and they were all EH; they were basically like drill sergeants and-but I don’t think I really-they were gruff, but they were fair. But the one thing that stands out more than anything was my senior year. General Eisen-now two of the ROTC sergeants saw combat in World War II, and they were both E8 master sergeants and I guess because of their service in World War II, they gravy duty and they were sent in as our ROTC instructors and they were gruff and mean and the whole bit. My senior year, General Eisenhower came to the campus, retired-I mean, he had already been president, and they built a new barracks, General Eisenhower Hall, and he came to dedicate the building, which was, you know, a big deal and I spent-one of my jobs was I built the five-star insignia on the parade field-these huge stars that I learned how to do in geography class-not geography, geometry class, and I cut out these huge stencils and put the lime on the deal and it was a great thing. I got extra points for that, but after the dress parade, there was a reception and at the reception, these two ROTC sergeants that served in World War II and Eisenhower was the supreme commander, they went through the reception line-and they were rough, mean guys, and they got tears in their eyes [clears throat]…it was neat, but when-ok-you ready? These two E8s go through the reception line and shake hands with Eisenhower and it was like they had met their god…excuse me…that event chokes me up, it was to see these guys just-they melted. Ok…couldn’t deal with it, ok…anyway, these guys-that’s the first time I saw that the army is a very close unit; same with the marines and the navy. They’re the people that you serve with and, you know, I really-I got in a little bit of trouble my junior year and I won’t go into that, but I got out of trouble because I built these stars on the field; that’s what saved me I think. Anyway, I made so many friends there that to this day, there’s about 10 of us that even before the reunion, I mean, we see each other all the time. Even though we live 2-300 miles apart, you know, we’ve made some really, really good friends. When I-I married shortly after high school and that only lasted five years and I was going through a nasty divorce and I got drafted and it was like a godsend; this is good, this works. So I went into the service and there was actually nothing I learned in basic training or AIT that I didn’t already know how to do, so it was a gravy. When I graduated from AIT, I was already a sergeant, which was unheard of. Half the time I’d be excused from different exercises, because they knew I’d do it and they would send me on errands to do Oral History Transcript Interviewer: Sharon V. Milligan Oral History Candidate: Jim Griffith, Class of ’63, Glendora Campus June 4, 2011, Palm Springs, CA, Bi-Annual Reunion other stuff. It was a good life, and I went on to jump school, became a paratrooper and a pathfinder and I spent four years in the service, and everything I did in the service, it was like, I already knew how to do. There was no training-well I was trained to jump out of an airplane, which I wouldn’t have done before, but outside of that, there was nothing that I had to learn to do to be a soldier; it was already-I knew how to do it. It made life really easy; it made my life in the service very easy. So I always had gravy jobs, even though I was an infantry man. I was in a staff position for the…unit…which basically meant my job was to-whatever they needed, my job was to get-period. Do they have nicknames for that? They’re called a scrounge and there’s nothing that I couldn’t scrounge. And you have to know people. You have to have relationships. Not really. The key was just to ask. It was the simplest thing going and yeah, there was a few items that I had to borrow, but it was-I never did it for personal gain. It was especially for the unit. I’ve been out of the service 23 years and my company commander, we’ve stayed in touch-on a seven-day week, I probably get an email six of those seven days, to this day. I did my job and I made the unit look good and all that came from being in high school at Brown. Everything came automatic, you know. Somebody says get something; I knew how to get it. I knew how to march, I knew how to wear the uniform, I knew how to shine boots. It sounds like attitude too, though. You had an attitude of doing it, you had the right attitude. Yeah, the key in the service, you know, is do your job and if you do it right, life is…and if you don’t do the job or do it wrong, life can be miserable, so you do it-I mean, I knew how to prepare my uniform, for example. When I got to the 82nd-well, right before I got to the 82nd Airborne, I spent 3 weeks in jump school, and 3 weeks in pathfinders school in-at Fort Banning, Georgia in July. I had never been to the south before; the weather was just horrible.
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