0:00 - Recruitment into the Military Intelligence Service
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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; 4C classification; Camp McCoy; concentration camp; Gila River; interpreters; Japanese Army; Japanese language; Kibei; linguists; Military Intelligence Service; military service; MIS; Nisei; overseas; recruitment; school; sponsor; translators; Tulare; volunteers
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4:50 - Volunteered for military service to get out of camp / Issei disagreed with his decision to volunteer
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9:46 - Difficulty for Nisei to volunteer from concentration camps -- Uncertainties going into service
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14:36 - Inducted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on Thanksgiving / Language training at the Military Intelligence Service Language School
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Keywords: army life; barracks; cold; comradery; discipline; Fort Snelling; Japanese language; Kibei; leaving camp; Military Intelligence Service; Military Intelligence Service Language School; military language; military training; Minnesota; MIS; Nisei; recruits; studying; Thanksgiving; train station; weather
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19:28 - Shipped overseas without any basic training
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22:39 - Nisei recruits at Military Intelligence Service Language School questioned their usefulness to the war effort
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