Oral History Interview with Joseph Mannion, April 26, 1986 Page: 2
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Marcello: In other words, are you saying the economics had a major
role with your decision to join?
Mannion: That's right, yes.
Marcello: It's interesting in that a lot of people of your generation
give that as the reason for entering the service. We were
still in the midst of the Great Depression in 1938.
Mannion: Well, they were still in a bad depression, yes.
Marcello: Why did you select the Navy as opposed to one of the other
branches of the service?
Mannion: I don't know. I just liked it the best. Between the Marines
and the Army, I felt the Navy was the best.
Marcello: How difficult or easy was it to get into the Navy in 1938?
Mannion: Well, it wasn't too easy because I think it took me, oh,
about nine months to get in. At that time they had a general
classification test which was pretty strict at that time.
Then they found I had one bad tooth, and they told me to
get it filled. In the interim I guess it took about nine
months to get all this done before they called me in.
They had a waiting list, I guess, in the hundreds at that
time.
Marcello: Where did you take your boot camp?
Mannion: Newport, Rhode Island.
Marcello: How long did boot camp last at that time? Do you remember?
Mannion: Three months, twelve weeks.
Marcello: So you did go through the normal Navy boot camp in that sense.
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Mannion, Joseph. Oral History Interview with Joseph Mannion, April 26, 1986, book, April 26, 1986; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306681/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.