When recounting his arrival in Vietnam in 1965, then-Corporal Joe Houle (director of the Marine Corps Museum of the Carolinas in 2002) said he saw no emotion in the eyes of his new squad: "'The look in their eyes was like the life was sucked out of them,'" later learning that the term for their condition was "the 1,000-yard stare". "'After I lost my first friend, I felt it was best to be detached,'" he explained.[4]