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Before being shipped to the South Pacific we had to take part in a two-day training exercise on the Big Island of Hawaii. Half of the Big Island is rain forest and the other half is desert, so you could experience all kinds of terrain. Our maneuvers took place out in the desert, which looked very much like our own Dinetah. It even had some of the same plants. Like many of the things that happened to me during the war, that training exercise made me very glad that I was a Navajo.
We had a gung-ho lieutenant. Everybody called him Stormy.