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- , 1985
INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE
INTERVIEWER: Ted
PLACE:
JACOBSON
Gittinger
Colonel Jacobson's residence, Reston, Virginia
Tape 1 of 2, Side 1
G:
All right, sir. Why don't we begin with 1954? How did you get selected for that duty in
Vietnam?
J:
Well
- weapons, the new weapons that we had. And the old
ones that were turned in, about five hundred thousand, were given to something called the
Self-Defense Forces, which were ordinary people who would accept a weapon and some
ammunition to keep in their home