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Ranked third in the conference and 21st nationally with Started the opener at Washington and had team highs of four catches and 48 yards Returned his second career kickoff for a touchdown in the home opener vs. The yard return is tied for the seventh longest in program history Also added a yard return Caught two passes for 11 yards as a starter Came off the bench against North Dakota and caught a yard touchdown pass Also returned four kicks for yards Had three catches for 73 yards, including a yard touchdown, against San Jose State Also had a yard rush and 96 kickoff return yards Caught a 3-yard pass and returned a career-high seven kickoffs at Fresno State Missed the game against Hawai[apos]i with an ankle injury Returned to action against Colorado State and had a yard grab Had a yard catch at Nevada Made three catches for 51 yards and a TD vs.

It was tied for the longest ever by an Aztec and was the program[apos]s first yarder since Caught a 7-yard pass in a start at wide receiver as well Earned the start vs. Air Force, but did not record a stat Started again at Wyoming and had three receptions for 37 yards Also returned a kickoff 41 yards Made the start and played in a bowl game for the third consecutive season For just the second time in 25 games on the offensive side of the ball, did not record a catch Returned two kickoffs for 29 yards.

Elected a midseason all-MW first-team honoree by Phil Steele as a wide receiver and was on the third team as a kick returner Hauled in 58 catches for yards and eight scores Also had seven rushes for 96 yards and led the squad in kick returns, averaging His 1, all-purpose yards were second on the team One of two Aztecs to return a kickoff for a touchdown, doing so from 94 yards out in the fourth quarter of his first career start vs. Cal Poly Also registered three catches for 82 yards and an yard touchdown on offense against the Mustangs Career-long catch on the game[apos]s second play at Army with a yard touchdown Finished the afternoon with his first yard receiving effort yards on a career-best five receptions Managed to haul in four passes for 59 yards in the win over WSU, while also averaging Seven receptions for 71 yards against Michigan, while adding the team[apos]s lone touchdown on a yard catch in the second half Also was credited with his first career rushes for 13 yards vs.

Made three catches for 51 yards and had six kick returns for yards with a long of 22 yards against TCU Had three receptions for 53 yards and a touchdown at Air Force Had three catches for 38 yards vs. Describing the 11th's departure from Seeley, Capt. Rosenberg noted:. The evening sun, still merciless at P. Known as the Live Oak Springs maneuver, the march through the desert and into the mountains was led by Col. After reaching Mountain Springs, the regiment made its way through Devils Canyon.

According to Rosenberg, the path was so narrow that the "men leading pack horses with short halter shanks had to lean backwards in their saddles. By the time the troops arrived at their destination, advance parties had already established "picket lines and kitchen posts. Although the squadron's mile trek from Seeley to Live Oak Springs brought the horse soldiers less than twenty miles from Campo, they would have to return to their desert camp because Lockett was far from completion.

In fact, a labor dispute brought construction to a grinding halt. Because of San Diego's booming defense industry, nearly all skilled civilian workers at Lockett were imported from Los Angeles. In addition, the lack of adequate housing in Campo forced contractors to pay higher wages. Nevertheless, the government was willing to incur the higher costs because it considered Lockett vital; "emergency construction" was the way officials put it. Although the army may have considered the project important, the fact that the United States was not yet at war meant that civilian workers could strike legally.

On 23 July , the San Diego Building and Trade Council argued that the men working in Campo were entitled to "free room and board in addition to [their] daily or hourly wages. Finally, on 18 August , the workers at Campo went on strike against the George A.

Fuller Company, the project's general contractor. Kaufman, the company's general superintendent, he was surprised by the strike because union and company officials were still in negotiations, and the camp was already about 75 percent complete. But the strike was shortlived because on the following day the men returned to work and the dispute was sent to a "board of review" for arbitration.

Obligated to complete the camp's construction by 1 December , the Fuller Company-in an attempt to expedite the project-erected its own saw mill and lumber yard near the railroad tracks where materials were precut and delivered by trucks to various sites. Plans called for the construction of buildings to accommodate 1, men and 1, horses. Over the next eight to ten weeks, construction continued at an intense pace. Administration buildings, stables, and warehouses were routinely completed.

The earlier decision to utilize the existing civilian structures in Campo was drastically altered when it became obvious that the buildings were not suitable for their intended use. The army, therefore, authorized additional expenditures for a new post exchange and recreation building.

According to an 11th Cavalry soldier still stationed at Seeley, December 7th was a "sunny day, and the usual number of officers and enlisted men were on 1-day passes to El Centro and San Diego. Eeeeeeeeeooooooow, went the fire sirens at El Centro, signaling all our men to report back to camp.

So did the highway patrols. In less time than it takes to say japs over Honolulu' the camp was functioning on a wartime basis. The rest of the Sunday passed swiftly. At the request of railroad officials, troops were dispatched to guard strategically important tunnels and bridges.

The guards along the Mexican border were "doubled and redoubled. Rumors about an impending invasion were circulating throughout the camp. One report said that "a certain coastal section of Mexico not too far from [Seeley was believed to be the center of Japanese activity. Throughout the day the squadron at Seeley coordinated defense plans with the troops at Lockett.

The tension mounted throughout the day. Radio reports "wipped [the troops] into a fine frenzy of sabotage-suspicions.

Less than two days later and in keeping with their pre-war schedule, the 11th Cavalry, led by Lt. The ride out of the desert and into the mountains was a wet one, particularly during the second night.

On 10 December at P. Wet, frightened horses were slowly, inch by inch led into strange, dark stables, tied, unbridled, unsaddled and rubbed. War brought an abrupt tightening of security procedures throughout the camp, a situation that had an immediate effect on Ben Wyly.

He was in charge of maintaining the line between Campo and El Centro. Using a small motorized car called a speeder, Wyly checked the track every day for vandalism or storm damage. For Wyly, the war created new challenges. But when the war started, there were five and six troop trains every day.

There were extra freight trains too. All the equipment was covered, but you could tell they were guns and boats headed for San Diego," said Wyly. When Wyly got the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was ffteen miles east of Campo in Hipass hunting quail and visiting his parents. I got mad and told the guards that I lived inside and needed to call my boss in San Diego for instructions.

After a couple of hours Col. Cheney the camp's commanding officer called the guards and told them to let me in. After that, they gave me a picture and a plastic holder for identification. Throughout the war, Wyly ferried soldiers by rail to a guard post at tunnel four. One end of the tunnel was in Mexico, and the other was in the United States. Mexican troops guarded their side, and American soldiers protected their territory. Because of the dramatic increase in the number of trains during the war, Wyly was given permission to employ soldiers as track laborers.

But according to Wyly, the soldiers were more trouble than they were worth. The men worked mostly weekends when they were off duty. They got paid straight time on Saturdays and time and a half on Sundays. I had to pay every one who showed up. On Saturdays there might be two or three men, but on Sundays there were more than fifty.

They weren't any good at laying track, so I'd try to hide from them by reporting the wrong place for them to meet me at. If they could find me though, I'd have to pay them.

As it became apparent in the days following Pearl Harbor that a Japanese invasion was not imminent, security on the west coast relaxed. By the third week in December, as the strength and location of Japanese forces became known, fears of an attack subsided. Training exercises and special events-for example, riding and shooting competitions between troops-were common.

Soldiers received day and weekend passes for bus trips to San Diego and Los Angeles. And, as at any large army post, prostitution flourished.

The army had a negative view of prostitution, stemming not from moral grounds but rather from medical concerns. The spread of venereal disease in the military was a national problem. So much so, that in March of , the Committee on Military Affairs in the House of Representatives opened hearings on proposed legislation to prohibit prostitution within a reasonable distance of military establishments.

At a Washington D. From the onset of Lockett's construction, prostitution was evident. There was at least one house approximately half a mile east of the camp servicing the soldiers and, perhaps, some of the local residents.

There were also several small one-room shacks or cribs in the vicinity. Day and night, an almost steady stream of soldiers could be seen walking along the railroad tracks enroute to the well-known establishments. After only seven months at Camp Lockett, the 11th Cavalry was transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia, a decision that reflected the army's need for more motorized and armored units.

According to instructions received from headquarters, Southern California Section, Western Defense Command at Pasadena, California, on 24 June , the 11th Cavalry would be relieved of its duties at Lockett by the 4th Cavalry Brigade. Just prior to the 11th Cavalry's departure, Brig. Thoburn K. Brown and an advance party of the 4th Cavalry Brigade arrived at Camp Lockett.

The 10th Cavalry Regiment was organized as an all-black unit in In , at the beginning of the American Civil War, free "Negroes" and escaped slaves flocked to enlist in the Union army. They were summarily rejected; in many ways, northern white people were as prejudiced as their southern counterparts.

By , however, black soldiers were serving in the Union army, not because of any change of attitude toward blacks but rather from the government's realization that since many more men were going to die in battle, they might as well be "Negro. By the war's end, , black men had served in the Union army 33, were killed. For more than two decades, the 10th was employed to fight the Indians in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were known as Buffalo Soldiers, a name bestowed on them by their Indian adversaries who found similarities between the troopers' hair and buffalo fur.

The 10th would later play a role in several other campaigns. Theodore Roosevelt. John J. During World War I the 10th Cavalry, in response to gunfire, again crossed the border and seized territory around Nogales.

Following World War 1, the 10th Cavalry spent the next twelve years performing routine training and garrison duty along the Arizona border. From to , the regiment was detailed to various posts in Kansas, Virginia, and New York. In , the unit reassembled at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The following year, under the command of Col. Waldemar A. Flack, the 10th Cavalry was dispatched to Camp Lockett. Finding suitable camps for the stationing of black troops was a problem for the War Department. In stationing black soldiers, the army had to consider the number of white troops at the facility, the proximity of civilian centers capable of providing "separate" facilities for troopers with passes, and the attitude of the nearby civilian community to the presence of black soldiers.

Many communities strongly objected to the stationing of black troops. In , the War Department received numerous complaints from across the country.

The people of Mississippi requested that "Negro officers" be stationed outside the state. Rapid City, South Dakota, was concerned that the "town could not offer the proper entertainment facilities for negro troops. In the spring of , a meeting of southern governors convened at Hot Springs, Arkansas. They offered the army two recommendations:. That no negro military police be used around Southern airports or any where else that might make it necessary for them to direct or control white soldiers and that Southern Negros be kept South and Northern Negros be kept North.

When the 2nd Cavalry Division-of which the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments 4th Cavalry Brigade were a part of-became all black, the army decided to break up the brigade by sending the 9th Cavalry to Fort Clark, Texas and the 10th Cavalry to Lockett. As a result both camps had to be significantly expanded to accommodate the troops and horses. With the arrival of both the Southern Land Frontier Sector and the 4th Cavalry Brigade, expansion of Lockett's facilities was essential.

Beginning in with the camp's construction, the army continued to acquire more property beyond the acres initially procured. Utilized primarily for staging and maneuvering activities, the army acquired 2, acres of public land from the Department of the Interior and 4, acres from private landowners.

In total, the military controlled over 7, acres of land in Campo Valley. The facility extended five miles from east to west and nearly three miles north and south. At Lockett, the 10th Cavalry performed the same duties as their predecessors -- patrolling the border, guarding the dams, and providing security for the trains. In addition, in late December of , the 10th participated in war games against the th Infantry.

Hal Gambrell, who was a white officer with the 10th, the infantry was no match for the horse soldiers. The cavalry worked around the hills keeping out , of sight and spotted some infantrymen in an open field.

The cavalry worked its way down through the forest, spread out in a line, drew pistols and charged. Needless to say a rout ensued with several hundred horses baring down on the infantry and all pan- demonium broke loose. The cavalry camped for the night and the following morning made a forced march of 44 miles back to Camp Lockett. Back in the fall of , the army decided to bring the 4th Brigade to full wartime strength by locating a second black regiment, the 28th Cavalry, at Lockett.

To accommodate the increase of personnel stationed at Lockett, the army had new barracks, warehouses, mess halls, and stables quickly erected. Many of the same contractors involved in the initial phases of construction performed the work. They also built a new stockade in anticipation of the expected increase in disciplinary problems, a direct correlation to the greater number of troops. To further consolidate its control over Camp Lockett, the army persuaded the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to relinquish control of County Road , which connected Highway 94 with the Mexican border.

According to a newspaper, the county agreed to vacate the road because "the surrounding property has been purchased by the government. Even though the army acquired control of the road, William H. Woolman, deputy collector of customs, announced that the customs house in Campo would continue to operate. Woolman declared that "it is possible that a new vehicular traffic route will have to be opened from the customs station to Jacumba, but this necessarily will be a post-war project.

Approximately twelve miles west of Campo, Tecate was now the closest border crossing. In order to bring the 4th Brigade to full strength, the 28th Cavalry was activated at Camp Lockett on 25 February Edwin M. Burnett, the 28th Cavalry secured its manpower primarily from eastern and midwestern reception centers.

The colonel greeted his new troops on 26 March , and their basic training started on the 29th of March. To provide the troops with mounts, Colonel Burnett personally picked horses from Fort Bliss, Texas.

The cadre 79 for the new regiment came from the 10th Cavalry. But cadres for new African-American units often created problems because there were not enough well-trained black soldiers to meet the army's needs.

Before the country began mobilizing for war, only four regular all black regiments-two cavalry and two infantry- existed. Despite the fact that the regular units were supposed to be comprised of older well-disciplined troops, these regiments were in need of training themselves.

Although the 10th Cavalry was classed as a combat regiment, the soldiers in the unit were actually used as service troops at various posts throughout the country.

Consequently, the regiment was not well trained and ill-equipped to give up its best men. In turn the newly formed units often complained that the cadres could not meet their needs because there were too few, and they were not as well trained as could be expected.

As a result, the "life-blood" of the old regiments was being drained, and both the new and the old units received inadequate training. This situation was exacerbated at Lockett because there was a break down in the chain of command, and racism appears to be at the root of the problem. According to Charles Barrett, who was a white officer with the 28th Cavalry, there were significant problems with training the new regiment at Lockett.

Burnett 83 wasn't doing anything about it; he wasn't standing behind the cadre. The problems between the cadre and the enlisted men in the 28th may have stemmed-in part- from the fact that most of the new recruits who had made it through high school were better educated than many of the old-timers who had little formal education. Although there were only about white soldiers 87 stationed at Lockett compared to approximately 3, black troops, segregation was strictly enforced, particularly when it came to leisure activities.

Although blacks and whites went to the same movie house on the base, there was separate seating. At the post hospital, white soldiers-regardless of their rank-were assigned to private rooms separated from the black troops. There was a hospitality house on the base for visiting girlfriends or wives, but it was for whites only. Some of the black women who visited the troops stayed on the nearby Campo Indian Reservation while others stayed in an improvised house just off the base.

According to Fred Jones, who was a corporal with the 28th Cavalry, "the house was built by black soldiers and made of discarded bulldozer crates. We tied them together, and the wives wall-papered the inside and put up curtains.

Off the base, the same rules of behavior applied. We never thought about going anywhere else in the city. The U. Jones said that the men seldom, if ever, attempted to frequent bars or restaurants in the Campo area. In one rare documented case, a group of black soldiers were refused service at a restaurant in Jacumba approximately thirty miles east of Lockett.

According to Liz Svensson, an Alpine resident who witnessed the event:. I stopped in Jacumba at a small restaurant for a cup of coffee. While I was there a group of men [black soldiers] came in for coffee, and they were refused service because of their color.

Their sergeant told the man behind the counter who these men were, and where they were stationed [Camp Lockett]. He asked him to serve them. With the Drum and Bugle Corps providing the field music, Col. Edward J. Drinkert, executive officer of the 28th, reviewed the troops. During basic training, a regimental field day was organized on 11 June The program consisted of ten events, including baseball, volleyball, track events, platoon drills, and obstacle races.

The victor was Weapons Troop, which scored forty-three points out of a possible hundred. Second was Troop C with thirty-five. The 28th Cavalry finished basic training at Lockett on 26 June After passing an inspection by a team from the 4th Cavalry Brigade, the regiment was allowed to proceed with the 10th Cavalry. It was also the first time that the brigade had acted as single unit. Reportedly, the review was a success.

Although the troops received extensive training in the art of soldiering, they were not prepared for fighting fires, a job they were often called upon to perform. William L. Hastie, who was stationed with the 10th Cavalry at Lockett as a second lieutenant, "God knows most of us didn't love fighting fires, [but] we often found ourselves doing it on weekends when we had other things we would rather do. In September and October of , four major fires ravaged 25, acres of the back country.

On 9 September, the Indian Creek Fire destroyed 4, acres. On 22 September, two fires erupted; the Potrero fire burned 4, acres, the Viejas fire 1, acres. The biggest and most devastating fire began on 2 October. Known as the Barrett-CottonwoodMorena Fire, it destroyed 16, acres over a five-day period.

Troops from Lockett were called on to fight the fire. In addition, marines from a small training facility in Pine Valley were trucked in. While fighting the blaze in Hauser Canyon several miles northwest of Campo, five of the marines burned to death when they were overtaken by the fast-moving fire. Lawrence Carter was also killed by the fire in Hauser Canyon. According to Hastie, Carter became separated from the main body of soldiers fighting the fire.

When the corporal found himself surrounded by the fire, he attempted to escape by running up a hill. He was unable to outrun the blaze. Henry C. Hine, Jr.