Mr. Pic. Yes, sir; this was weather patrol duty.
Mr. Jenner. You did come ashore when you got home?
Mr. Pic. We pulled weather patrol, sir. We would be out 5 or 6 weeks and we would be in 5 or 6 weeks; and this I tolerated for 21 months. On 1 February 1956, I joined the Air Force. I joined the Air Force on Staten Island, N.Y. My address at this time was 80 St. Marks Place, Staten Island, N.Y.
Mr. Jenner. In a few words, what was that transition. Had you appeared——
Mr. Pic. My enlistment from the Coast Guard was complete, sir, and I decided that staying in the Coast Guard for 20 or some odd years I wouldn't see much of my family and I understood the Air Force was a family man's outfit and I figured that was for me. So the day after I got out of the Coast Guard I joined the Air Force—no broken service. I was stationed at Mitchel Air Force Base, Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., until October, end of September, October 1958, and received orders to Japan, APO 323, Tachikawa, Japan.
Mr. Jenner. What year were you in?
Mr. Pic. 1958 when I received my orders.
Mr. Jenner. At this time when you were assigned to Japan, that was the period of time also when your brother Lee Oswald, then in the Marines, was also stationed in Japan?
Mr. Pic. To the best of my knowledge; yes, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Were you aware of that fact when you were stationed in Japan?