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Thomas Wood McLain volunteered for pharmacy school. They sent Thomas to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. For three months he was a pharmacist. In his two years as a pharmacist, he fulfilled his enlistment and was released from the army on August 25 1950. On that same day, the Korean war started. Thomas agreed to be on the inactive reservist for five years. Due to the Korean War, they then recalled him. During September of 1950, he was in the Army again as a PFC [Private First Class]. He received orders to take a troop train from Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky to Seattle, Washington. They loaded him and 500 Americans on board the ship the day before they loaded the Princess Pats Light Infantry [The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry]. As soon as they hit open water and hit a storm, everyone started getting sick. Thomas later became a gunner and he got on-the-job training. He was later promoted to section sergeant. He was promoted again and made sergeant first class. That was towards the end of the war, that would have been in October of 1951. Thomas was on the front line from February 17th until October 28th, after he left the company.