July 9, 1957: LHO reports to the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro, California, and is
attached to the 4th Replacement Battalion.
August 22, 1957: LHO departs for Japan.
September 12, 1957: He arrives in Japan at Yokosuka, where he is assigned to the
Marine Air Control Squadron #1, Marine Air Group 11, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, based in Atsugi.
October 27, 1957: LHO accidentally shoots himself in the arm with a derringer.
November 15, 1957: LHO is discharged from the hospital at Yokosuka.
November 20, 1957: LHO’s unit sails for the Philippine Islands.
March 7, 1958: LHO's unit sails for Atsugi.
March 18, 1958: The unit reaches Atsugi.
April 11, 1958: LHO is court-martialed for the first time for illegal possession of a firearm.
June 27, 1958: LHO is court-martialed for the second time for assaulting a superior and
sentenced to the brig.
August 13, 1958: LHO is released from confinement.
September 14, 1958: LHO and his unit sail for the South China Sea.
September, 1958: LHO's unit arrives in Taiwan, where he suffers a nervous breakdown...
and is sent back to Japan.
October 5, 1958: LHO arrives in Atsugi.
October 6, 1958: LHO is put on general duty.
October 31, 1958: LHO receives his last overseas rating, a 4.0.
November 2, 1958: LHO departs Japan.
November 15, 1958: He arrives in San Francisco.
November 19, 1958: LHO takes 30 days leave.
December 22, 1958: LHO is assigned once again to El Toro, this time with MACS-9.
January, 1959: LHO is given his semi-annual ratings, which are average.
February 25, 1959: LHO requests a foreign language test in Russian and scores "poor".
March 9, 1959: LHO is promoted to Private 1st Class again.
July, 1959: LHO is given his semi-annual ratings, which are average.
October 27, 1957: LHO accidentally shoots himself in the arm with a derringer.November 15, 1957: LHO is discharged from the hospital at Yokosuka.That was
three weeks at a location some
40 miles from the base where Oswald incurred a non life threatening and by all appearances.. superficial wound. They didn't have base facilities for this minor treatment? Now-a-days someone is discharged the same afternoon!
April 11, 1958: LHO is court-martialed for the first time for illegal possession of a firearm.I have never heard of a military tribunal of this rather low magnitude that took
six months to transpire. What his punishment was I haven't determined.
June 27, 1958: LHO is court-martialed for the second time for assaulting a superior and
sentenced to the brig.I haven't had the time to explore much more...but somewhere along the line Oswald was busted in rank and did six weeks in the brig.
When I was in the Navy, for the first three days-- brig rats were automatically placed on bread and water
October 31, 1958: LHO receives his last overseas rating, a 4.0. Happy Halloween there...The highest rating score in the service and this after two courts-marshal a nervous breakdown and a fist into the face of a superior?
In the Navy I got quarterly scores...mediocre at that.
I was a piss poor sailor [I guess] but I didn't get into any chargeable trouble...called 'getting written up'.
February 25, 1959: LHO requests a foreign language test in Russian and scores "poor".Maybe the test was just not fair