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Mr. Jacobs compares his service time in the army with his time in the air force.
Transcription
Out of the army I got two things. One of them was very, very negative. I didn’t like the Army people. When I was in the Second World War I didn’t like them then. I didn’t like the way they treated me. And then when I got mixed up with them again, I really didn’t anticipate this, but when mobile command moved in and took over that building and there I was stuck with them again, it was more of the same thing except that it was worse this time because I’m not a Private now. I’m a Major, and the kind of things that are going on, the kind of treatment that I’m getting is really very, very demeaning, very demeaning. I use to like to go to the officers mess on a Friday night. I went twice when the Army was there. I used to do that as a routine when the Air Force was there. We all did. But when the Army came I think I went twice and the experience was so negative and so demeaning that I just never went back at all. So there was a very strong anti-black sense that I had.