Pacific Counseling Service
The Pacific Counseling Service (PCS) was a G.I. counseling service organization created by Anti-war movement, antiwar activists during the Vietnam War. PCS saw itself as trying to make the U.S. Armed Forces "adhere more closely to regulations concerning conscientious objector discharges and G.I. rights." The ''Armed Forces Journal'', on the other hand, said PCS was involved in "Antimilitarism, antimilitary activities", including "Legal counsel, legal help and incitement to dissident GIs." PCS evolved out of a small GI Help office started by a freshly discharged United States Air Force, Air Force Sergeant in San Francisco, California in January 1969. The idea rapidly caught on among antiwar forces and within a year PCS had offices in Monterey, Oakland, and San Diego in California, plus Tacoma, Washington. By 1971 it had spread around the Pacific Ocean, Pacific with additional offices in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Okinawa, the Philippines, as well as Tokyo and Iwakuni in Japan. Each loca ...
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Pacific Counseling Service Pamphlet 1971 Cover Page
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east. At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, larger than Earth's entire land area combined .Pacific Ocean
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