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to try to circumvent that if you
can, so you prefer to take an
Article 15.
After you've had three or four
Article 15s, the next step would
be a summary court martial where
most of the time when you're
subjected to that, it’s before,
perhaps, the battalion comman-
der. Most of the time there can be
a reduction in rank and the
majority of the time there is a fine
as far as money is concerned.
It’s tough being in the service on
the limited amount of money that
you receive, so this is the way that
the system keeps you in check.
You don’t want to lose the rank,
and you want to make more
money because it’s avery
menial existence. This is the
reason | tried to circumvent a lot,
but | didn’t and! wound up with
quite a few court martials and
quite a few office hours. | guess it
just depends on the individual and
what they’ve been exposed to,
don’t you think so?
Dennis: Yes. But plus with an
Article 15 they can bust you two
grades, fine you up to $300 and
throw you in the stockade up to
90 days with one man. You can’t
give them all three, you can give
them two of the three. They can
bust you and fine you or bust you
and throw you in the stockade.
Which means like if you were in
the military and you got a traffic
ticket outside, with this double
jeopardy thing, you might pay
yourself.a fine to a civilian court,
but you still have to answer to the
military court. They can = say
you're a bad driver and say you’re
an E5, what does an E5 make?
$300 a month?
Malcolm: Something like that.
Dennis: Yeah, well $300 a month
is nothing, so people like to hold
onto that money. But they can
bust you two ranks and make you
a PFC which is $130 and fine you
$300. And that could be for
anything. If you had a battalion
commander who is really a
staunch racist, he can pick out
chicanos or blacks. It’s really a
bum deal, a piece of junk.
Daily: Until recently, we haven't
really heard much about what
really seems to be going on in
Vietnam and what you say brings
to mind one of those things the
commercial press has only re-
cently touched on: fragging inci- -
dents. Do these stem from Article
15s, or are they more personal?
Malcolm: \t stems from personal
things. This was a lever as a threat
that | would use, and | know that
many servicemen that | came in
contact with would use that were
in the infantry because we just
wouldn’t accept the bullshit.
There’s a -certain amount of
bullshit-that you can be subjected
to within the: battalion confines.
You're ina nerve-wracking type
situation. One time they’re flying
you out in helicopters and you
land and you’re on a problem and
you don’t know if the intelligence
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you land right in the middle of a
VC batallion and you're under all
this mental strain and_ stress,
okay? Then, you come back to
the batallion area and things don't
change. You have working parties.
And if you're a peon, a PFC or a
Lance Corporal, you go through
all this bullshit. The lieutenant
goes off somewhere in his little
hootch and he lays in there and
he’ll say “Well, you have-a rifle
inspection at 4:30.”
And, say after you’ve been out
in the field for three weeks you —
don’t want to hear that shit. Your
rations have been off for two or
three days— _ the _ helicopters
haven’t been able to get in — you
haven’t had enough water, you
just haven’t had _ sufficient sup-
plies. Maybe within...certainly
within that three weeks time you
haven't had a bath, okay?
So when you get back to the
battalion area, you want a let-
down. You want to rest. But they
won’t let you. So what happens is
you say, ‘Say, man, | really don’t
appreciate it.” This is where you
get into that rank structure, and
the first thing you know he’s
saying, “I’m a commissioned
officer in the United States
Marine Corps, and you don’t
approach me in that manner.” |
say, ““You’re a man and I’m a
man, and I’m less than a man if |
can’t tell you what | think, feel
and what | want as far as my
needs are concerned.”
The only thing that | can do as
an individual in order to retaliate
if the individual keeps sending
through these mental changes is
“off” him if | get an opportunity.
Which | will...
Dennis: \t happens. It’s like...
Malcolm: ...because he’s an ene-
my to me. You have some of
these people who have been
subjected to this military atmo-
sphere and this is what they think
because this has become their
world. They don’t know anything
about the real world. And it isn’t
necessarily their fault. But you try
to communicate with them and
you can’t for the simple reason
they’ve been thoroughly _ pro-
grammed. .
But then again, you're dealing
with asymptom. That individual is
just a symptom. That individual is
a product of a racist society. |
look at it that way now and |
understand it. But, at that time, |
didn’t understand why there was
this difference. After a while you
begin to understand the reason
you are subjected to this racism is
because this individual lack a
certain amount of confidence
within himself, and you are a
threat to his image.
Although he has the position,
just because someone pins bars on
your collar and tells you you’re a
first lieutenant now, and you've
been through all the schools and
you're trained now. you're a
leader. It takes more than that.
| think this shows a conflict
between values.
Dennis: Of course, you know
when you go into the military,
you take a series of tests. If you
live in a sub-class environment,
what do you have to get out of it
except the military? You can go
up to someplace where you have
insured earnings and this kind of
shit, but you go in there and
compete with your middle-class
white Americans. Most of them
are high school graduates, right?
And they give you jobs with how
you score on these tests. Like if a
black or chicano comes out of the
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ghetto and takes these tests, he’s
not going to score as high as if
some white middle-class American
takes them. They get clerk. jobs,
typing clerks, supply clerks, com-
munication people. Because, you
know, the black don’t have the
education. And they think...
Dailv: You spoke of the “con-
text” of the war. Do you think
most of the veterans become
against the war after they leave
the service?
Malcolm: The only thing | can
give is from personal experience
and some of the people I’ve come
in. contact with. | feel myself
exceptional to the extent that |
was able to circumvent a lot of
the obstacles that a vet could
encounter. When | returned here
to the United States, | was still
subjected to this same. wourea-
ucratic red tape. | had to go
through a lot of transitions to find
my position. People were dealing
with me from the pigmentation of
the skin, and not so much the
service that | have rendered this
country. | put emphasis on it. It
wasn’t like | wasn’t in a position
in the battalion area. | was in the
front-lines, and every major opera-
tion that we took part in, | was
there. So | feel that by doing this,
| should be entitled to some
benefits, if I’m willing to put
forth the effort.
Still, when | returned, | had to
view the whole Vietnam trip
subjectively. Before, | was trying
to do it objectively and saying it
was an obligation, this was what |
as supposed to do, it was a
service for my country; now | see
t differently. When | was there, |
as striving for survival. | was
are of the fact at the time | was
ere that the Vienamese people
e never done anything to me as
individual, but | found myself
a very awkward or a very
Drecarious position for the simple
eason that it was either me or
im. So | was fighting for my life
when | was over there, but |
country because | remember what
| was subject to then; and when |
returned after | had gone through
the Vietnam trip, |! -was. still
subjected to the same_ racist
concepts and prejudices. This is
what | mean by looking at it
out-of-context. | have the oppor-
tunity to look at it in a different
perspective now, one you might
call John Q. Average-American-
Public. | look at the Vietnam war
now asvery immoral. Again, this is
only a personal opinion, but | feel
it is doing nothing but perpetua-
ting repression of black people.
Daily: Dennis, you didn’t have
the race question to worry about
when you came back, but you
have said you were still “‘gung-
ho.” Do you. . .?
Dennis: | think a lot of people go
into the military and see it as a
certain way of life. | think that
only a small minority of people
are educated to see it in the right
light. Like how many times have |
heard, “‘Well the Vietnamese peo-
ple are stupid. They don’t know
what's good for them.”
Malcolm: They‘re reared and
geared...
Dennis: ..the blacks should get
the menial work, the frontline
stuff. It’s really...the military to
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ct want
me is really racist. | never even
looked at it as racist until | got
outside because...
Marlin: The point is, which Mal-
colm’s saying here, and as | think
a lot of blacks see it, the problem
isn’t the war. The problem is more
basic, that is, racism within the
society. The military, as well as
any other agency in the society is
the same. !t isn’t any more racist
or less racist than the rest of
society.
Dennis: Yes. Look at the papers.
The first black admiral. What kind
of bullshit is that? Is this such a
big thing, | mean...
Marlin: Yes. Compare that with
the first black corporate head and
he hasn't come up yet. And the
first black Cabinet member, and
he hasn’t come up yet. This is
where the core problem lies. And
it isn’t. any different in the
military than in civilian life.
Malcolm: Because you still are
dealing with this _ institutional
structure. The military is an
institution designed to protect the
system. So what | am subjected to
in-the system, | am also subjected
to in the military institution,
because this institution serves as
an auxiliary or sort of like an
appendage. It’s an arm used to
control people. Therefore, I’m
just taken from the collective
masses and shot into the military
and they tell me from my scores
that ‘‘You go into the infantry.”
When you go into the infantry,
it means that you have no
leadership qualities because you’re
just not supposed to have any.
What you do is to assume this
role. These are the prescriptions
for this role: “Private Malcolm
Thompson.”
When | went through boot
camp, | always had this fucker
running around telling me that |
was lower than whaleshit, and |
said, ‘“Fuck you, man. Say, I’ve
been subjected to that shit outside
and | come here and the same
bullshit because you got a few
stripes on your collar.’’ So the
first time | blast the cat upside the
head, they’re telling me I’m not
fit for military duty. For me, as
an individual, I’m what is termed
as “revolutionary” because I’ve
never accepted the bullshit that is
handed down to me as a man
because I’ve always felt that | was
aman.
I'm glad to see things now are
changing as far as concept of
black people are concerned. At
first | was a loner. They were
always telling me that you don’t
tell teachers to “Get fucked.”
And you don’t tell people to do
anything and there’s a certain way
to act.
The only way | can act is as a
black individual. That’s the en-
- vironment that have been sub-
jected to. | just can’t all of a
sudden go into a _ middle-class
school like | was subjected to
when | lived in Colorado, and
assume the role of a student.
Daily: The military makes a big
deal out of the fact it has been
integrated since the late 40’s. Do
you think it has justification for...
Dennis: Bullshit! Cause like | was
in in ‘67 when they had the big
investigation to determine the
percentage of black officers.
Malcolm: Right.
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Stop the war,
to get out!
Dennis: This big blow-up in the
paper forced them to pick blacks
out of anywhere. They said,
‘Now, we’re going to make you
an officer, and you an officer and
you an. officer.” And they
thought that this would shut up
the whole news media. But they
were willing to make sure that this
black didn’t have too much on the
ball. Like he might get out a
captain. And then they took
another because he won’t give us
any trouble. There are whites that
are mealy-mouthed and there are
blacks and chicanos who are
mealy-mouthed and they got the
ones who didn’t have any nation-
alism.
Grab him who thinks he’s white
and grab this guy who thinks he’s
white and then there’s not going
to be any trouble for the system.
Get this guy who’s black and
who’s proud that he’s black and
he’s going to give the system a lot
of shit.
Malcolm: The thing is, | look at it
and | really laugh now. The only
thing that I’m subjected to as a
black man is moving from one
plantation to another, but they
give it different names. Out here,
they call it ‘’society.’’ In there, it’s
the military society. But to me,
it’s one massive plantation where |
am dependent all the time on the
government and the government is
dictating to me how | should
react to racist philosophies and
racist concepts; that | should
accept this. And. things haven't
changed at all. Out here where |
am dealing with society and being
exposed to the intellectural ranks
in the University, it is only
another big plantation for me
because | have overseers who are
teachers and they are telling me
how to think, how to speak, what
| should say to be sociably
acceptable and they're saying
“Race doesn’t really make a
difference,” and, say, | can see all
these contradictions because I’ve
been through the trips. I’ve been
through the ghetto, military and
now I'm in the intellectual ranks
and things haven’t changed. And |
go through books and | see how
this society has named me: A
Negro.
Going back through the anthro-
pological studies, you have the
caucausoid, the mongoloid, and
the negroid and | say, ‘What is a
negroid? What is that?’
Say, | can see through that
bullshit. 1f | am supposed to be an
entity and I’m supposed to be
treated as a man, why don’t you
treat me as such? Why am |
always being subjected to racism
and prejudice. When | try to
define myself, why do. they
always say, “This is a racist
philosophy?”
This sort of goes back to what
you were saying about “mealy-
mouthed” blacks. You have field
blacks and house blacks. Now |
define myself as an Afro-
American. |! know to really
understand myself, | must under-
stand my~mother country, and
this is Africa. And | must
understand many things which
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