Recruitment
The US Marines Corp trained 29 Navajo men after Pearl Habor broke loose from the Japanese. In the war there were around 400 Navajo Marines that signed up or in camps and sophisticated with their language to use their language. "The first 29 recruited Navajos (one dropped out) arrived at Camp Elliott near San Diego in May 1942. One of the first tasks for these recruits was to develop a Navajo code." (CIA, 2016)
The Navajo language is a great and basically a perfect option for the military use of a code. It is not a written langauge and very few people are taught to speak the Navajo language, that millions don't know what they are saying.
"Always remember, you are defending both your country and your families. The Japanese attacked your land, your home. And now you will make your country proud."
~ The words of a senior officer before the invasion of Guadalcanal
Language
The Navajo Code Talkers broke barriers in history by being the first military tactic on not having their lanuage broken. A Native language is a use of hard words to understand and speak, especially the Navajo language. "The initial code consisted of 211 vocabulary terms, which expanded to 411 over the course of the war." (CIA, 2016) The Navajo's and a helpful partner named Philip Johnston developed an unbreakable code that they used in WWII.
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