Podcast 38 Soldier Skills - 8618 10.49 AM

Finding My Way: A Memoir by Jerry Morton

Soldier Skills, part one of two parts, is an account of the army's teaching Jerry the skills required of a soldier during the eight weeks of basic training in the fall of 1966 at Ft. Dix, New Jersey. Those skills included hand-to-hand fighting and bayonet training. Jerry's frustrations produced unique behaviors.