.
The rest of the equipment went to the Manila
port facilities and was trucked back to Olongapo. Admiral Hart
expressed specific orders for the regiment to get into the field as
quickly as possible without all of its heavy equipment. "We all
knew," Hart wrote later, "that they had been cooped up in Shanghai
through all those years where conditions for any sort of field
training were very poor � and we thought that not much time
remained."
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