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Mr. JENNER. You entered the Coast Guard.
Mr. PIC. It was either 25 or 26 January 1950, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And you were then 18 years of age?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And that was where?
Mr. PIC. I processed my enlistment in Fort Worth. I was sworn into the Coast Guard in Dallas, Tex.
Mr. JENNER. I think it might be well if we had your service history all in one spot so you go ahead and for my benefit speak a little more slowly so I can absorb it.
Mr. JENNER. Were you at sea?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; this was classified as sea duty. It was really a buoy tender.
Mr. JENNER. In what area?
Mr. PIC. New York area, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Were you on ship all the time during that period?
Mr. PIC. We would go out a day, come back the next; back and forth.
Mr. JENNER. What I am really getting at is when you were ashore were you home?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; I went home the minute I got off the ship.
Mr. JENNER. OK.
Mr. PIC. September 1953 until April 1954--these months I am pretty sure, I am certain are OK.
Mr. JENNER. That is all right.
Mr. PIC. I was stationed at U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. My address when I lived there was, for 3 months we lived with my sister-in-law in Norfolk.
Mr. JENNER. Name her, please.
Mr. PIC. Mrs. Emma Parrish, I believe.
Mr. JENNER. That was your wife's sister?
Mr. PIC. That is correct, sir. Then in January of 1954 we moved over to Portsmouth, Va., 1234 Holliday Street.
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; this was weather patrol duty.
Mr. JENNER. You did come ashore when you got home?
Mr. PIC. We pulled weather patrol, sir. We would be out 5 or 6 weeks and we would be in 5 or 6 weeks; and this I tolerated for 21 months. On 1 February 1956, I joined the Air Force. I joined the Air Force on Staten Island, N.Y. My address at this time was 80 St. Marks Place, Staten Island, N.Y.
Mr. PIC. My enlistment from the Coast Guard was complete, sir, and I decided that staying in the Coast Guard for 20 or some odd years I wouldn't see much of my family and I understood the Air Force was a family man's outfit and I figured that was for me. So the day after I got out of the Coast Guard I joined the Air Force--no broken service. I was stationed at Mitchel Air Force Base, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., until October, end of September, October 1958, and received orders to Japan, APO 323, Tachikawa, Japan.
Mr. JENNER. What year were you in?
Mr. PIC. 1958 when I received my orders.
Mr. JENNER. At this time when you were assigned to Japan, that was the period of time also when your brother Lee Oswald, then in the Marines, was also stationed in Japan?
Mr. PIC. To the best of my knowledge; yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Were you aware of that fact when you were stationed in Japan?
Mr. PIC. When I received my orders, I was under the impression he was in Korea, sir. I knew he was overseas in the Japanese-Korean area.
Mr. JENNER. Had you had any communication from him prior to your going to Japan?
Mr. PIC. To the best of my knowledge, sir, sometime after he entered the service and went overseas I received a letter from him, very short note. He wrote a very short note. I no longer have this.
Mr. JENNER. He entered the service in October of 1956?
Mr. PIC. I was in the Air Force at Mitchel Air Force Base at the time. Do you want me to finish with my military dates, and then I can go back?
Mr. JENNER. Yes.
Mr. PIC. November 1958, 10 November 1958 until 17 July, 1962, I was stationed in Japan. In August 1962 until the present date assigned to Lackland, Wilford Hall Air Force Hospital, Lackland Air Force Base.
Now, in the time period from--my mother paid us a Christmas visit, sir, during the Christmas holidays of 1957, I believe, after Lee had joined the Marine Corps.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; that would be a little over a year, that would be a year and 2 months after he had joined the Marine Corps.
Mr. PIC. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Where were you at that time?
Mr. PIC. I was stationed at Mitchel Air Force Base, sir, and I believe my address was 105 Avenue C, East Meadow, Long Island. I was living right next to the Air Force base.
Mr. JENNER. Had you known prior to that time, which presumably you did, that Lee had entered the service?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; I knew this.
Mr. JENNER. Had enlisted in the Marines?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And how had you learned that, through your mother?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; through my mother.
Mr. JENNER. Had you learned that at or about the time he actually enlisted? What were the circumstances?
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