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  After our swearing-in ceremony where, we were inducted and became, "Recruits and titled as such at Ala Moana U.S. Army Recruiting Station, we were 30 some strong and came from all points of the Islands.
We were bunched close to each other for hours but for what ever the reason we didn't say a word to each other. 
We than were bussed west to the U.S. Army Hawaii Training Center, Located on the Central Highlands of the Island of Oahu and near Wahiawa Town. There we started what was called Basic Training and housed on the second floor of Quad E as Ist Platoon Co.B and shared the floor with 2nd Platoon in a dual room floor setup. Up on the third was to be 3rd and 4th Platoons.
The quad was made up of four buildings, ours was on the north and housed Companies A and B, the east building housed companies C and D, south, Heavy weapons and Headquarters companies. The western side building was our Battalion Headquarters with it's  administration sections. Thats why they were named Quads and all eight were built identically the same to house an entire Division.
We spent the first week just getting uniformed, Olive drab underwear, socks and Fatigues even the boots were green.
We also got dog tags (properly named) ID cards and haircuts if you can call it that (balled heads would have been a better description). we all looked weird which kept us even more quite.

We were restricted to Camp which meant we couldn't go home but than, no one wanted to go home anyway, not looking the way we did.

 

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    QUAD E, SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HAWAII

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This is present day Quad E with the upscale lawns and palm trees. The bottom or first floors housed the Company Headquarters, Supply and Game rooms plus the Mess Halls of three of the four buildings, the fourth being the Battalion building made up of Personnel offices on the bottom, administration offices on the second and the third floor was for the Battalion Commanders office and conference rooms
 

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As Recruits we wore a U.S. lapel badge on our Khaki shirt lapels

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