United States Marine Corps Interrogator Translator Teams Association
Some Battle History & Citations of the ITT's
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Each year we Marines bear witness to our ancestry and mark our history on 10 November. Our antiquity is rich with symbolism and metaphor that emboldens our brotherhood of Marines. So too, we as Marine Interrogators shall strive to identify our core essence and preserve the history of the Interrogator Translator Teams to witness our place in Marine Corps history.
Our endeavor to research and write the history of the Interrogator Translator Teams and the Marine Interrogator is vital.
We encourage all Marine Interrogators to submit any historical information and their personal accounts. Team Histories, photos, articles, anecdotal accounts and personal histories are all items of great interest and importance.
We prefer material to be submitted in digital form, but will gladly convert and return to you any hard copy you may have. We will post these accounts and historical documents to this website and compile a history of the Marine Corps Interrogation field for final repository with the Marine Corps University at Quantico.
This is an ongoing project that will be pursued with attention to accuracy, and will be refurbished as time passes and new information becomes available. Although we look for historical fact, the anecdotal stories of those who were there are most vital to the complete understanding of what it was like and what happened.
The history of the ITT’s has never been comprehensively recorded. It is incumbent upon all of us to do so with diligence. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." So too we must ensure that our history is noted and done correctly by us, lest it be left to those who did not witness it and who would treat us unkindly.
Writing history is a guessing game at best, but without such ad hoc judgments, we cannot make sense of the past, of current events nor, most important, of the future.
Professor Manfred Weidhorn, Yeshiva University, 1993
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As we work to research and compile our history, a repository has been established to hold material until such time as it can be collated and put into a coherent whole prior to submission to the Marine Corps University at Quantico. Please visit this site hosted by the MCITTA Historian. Please contact him directly to add material.
ITT History Repository Website
Letter from the MCITTA Historian
Graphic courtesy of Colonel Charles Waterhouse USMC (Ret) www.usmcartist.com/
Updated:02/12/08
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