Mopar Manipulatin’ , HRM August ‘69
I have that complete article and the follow up in a green 50 page paperback book with all kinds of other Mopar LA HI-po articles in it. Got it at a swap meet brand new . That's the book that has the 273 weber 4X2 setup, I think they made like 20 of those? The Army contract was called COHORT (spelling?) where they would take ~90 11's (infantry) and put them in the same boot camp platoon and they would stick together their entire 3 years in the same unit. Smart guys back in the Vietnam era enrolled with a guaranteed contract of something non combat related. Marines had all kinds of MOS's in the same bootcamp platoon as every Marine is a rifleman first, then whatever they want to send you to school for. We had HAWK missile techs, 1 heavy equipment operator, artillery, armor, 2 air traffic controllers, a few cooks (open contract drug waivers) and a few admin. About 50 out of the 90 were 03's (infantry). Once we graduated we all went our own ways. I went to North Carolina ITS (Infantry training School) from San Diego boot camp for some reason as most everyone else just took a bus 45 miles north to Camp Pendleton, CA.