(Testimony of Nelson Delgado)
Mr. Delgado.
Fort Hancock, N.J.; and from there I was put in the line battery, Delta Battery.
Mr. Liebeler.
And that is where you are assigned at the present time?
Mr. Delgado.
That is right.
Mr. Liebeler.
Are you working now as a cook?
Mr. Delgado.
That is right.
Mr. Liebeler.
You are also the mess steward of your messhall; is that correct?
Mr. Delgado.
No, not mess steward; first cook.
Mr. Liebeler.
First cook?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
So you are not in charge of the messhall?
Mr. Delgado.
No; I am in charge of the personnel that work the day I am working.
Mr. Liebeler.
You mentioned that your MOS, I believe it is called, your military occupation specialty, has an indication that you are qualified to speak Spanish or another language; is that correct?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you take tests while you were in the Army to establish your proficiency in the Spanish language?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes, I took the language proficiency test, and also the OCS test, the regular test they give you when you first go into the service, and I passed them all. It's in my 201 files, my military records.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you pass the Spanish proficiency test?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes. In fact I was offered to be sent to Monterey language school.
Mr. Liebeler.
To continue your studies in connection with the Spanish language?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
You took the Spanish proficiency test when you came into the Army at Fort Ord; is that correct?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Where were you born?
Mr. Delgado.
I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1939.
Mr. Liebeler.
At what address? Where?
Mr. Delgado.
I believe it was Kings County Hospital.
Mr. Liebeler.
Your parents still reside in Brooklyn?
Mr. Delgado.
303 47th Street. That's what my address was during the Marine Corps, but right now the neighborhood is tore down, so there's no record of it now.
Mr. Liebeler.
Your parents reside in Brooklyn?
Mr. Delgado.
No. My parents are divorced. One lives in Puerto Rico, and my mother lives in California.
Mr. Liebeler.
You lived at the address in Brooklyn that you just gave me from the time you were born until the time you went into the Marine Corps; is that correct?
Mr. Delgado.
That's correct.
Mr. Liebeler.
Tell us briefly where you went to school.
Mr. Delgado.
That's pretty hard to keep track of, because I was like a yo-yo, back and forth from one parent to the other. But I went to school in P.S- No. 2.
Mr. Liebeler.
In Brooklyn?
Mr. Delgado.
In Brooklyn, until the third grade, and I was transferred. I went to California with my mother. I was there in the Park Avenue Grammar School from the third grade to the fifth.
Mr. Liebeler.
What city in California?
Mr. Delgado.
Wilmington, Calif. And then I went back to New York, back to P.S. No. 2 for the 5th grade to the 6th, graduated from there, went to public school, Dewey Junior High School--I don't know what P.S. it is--from the 7th grade to the 8th and then went back to California and went to Wilmington Junior High School from the 7th to the about the 11th grade, and the 11th grade I went back to Brooklyn into Manual Training High School and dropped out after the 11th grade.
Mr. Liebeler.
You have not graduated from high school?
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