Editing Douglas MacArthur (section)

==Junior officer==
MacArthur spent his graduation furlough with his parents at [[Fort Mason]], California, where his father, now a major general, was commanding the [[Department of the Pacific]]. Afterward, he joined the 3rd Engineer Battalion, which departed for the Philippines in October 1903. MacArthur was sent to [[Iloilo]], where he supervised the construction of a wharf at [[Camp Jossman]]. He conducted surveys at [[Tacloban City]], [[Calbayog]] and [[Cebu City]]. In November 1903, while working on [[Guimaras]], he was ambushed by a pair of Filipino [[Brigandage|brigands]] or guerrillas; he shot and killed both.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=87–89}} He was promoted to first lieutenant in [[Manila]] in April 1904.{{sfn|Manchester|1978|p=65}} In October 1904, his tour of duty was cut short when he contracted [[malaria]] and [[Tinea cruris|dhobi itch]] during a survey on [[Bataan]]. He returned to San Francisco, where he was assigned to the [[California Debris Commission]]. In July 1905, he became chief engineer of the Division of the Pacific.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=90–91}}

[[File:MacArthur castle.jpg|thumb|left|MacArthur was an engineer for the first 14 years of his military career. He received these [[Gold Castles|golden castle pins]] as a gift upon graduation. He carried these pins with him for over 40 years and in 1945 gave them to Major General [[Leif J. Sverdrup]], whom he thought more deserving to wear them. Sverdrup gave them to the [[List of United States Army Corps of Engineers Chiefs of Engineers|Chief of Engineers]] in 1975. Every Chief of Engineers since then has worn MacArthur's pins.<ref>{{cite web |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |title= Historical Vignette 089 - The History of the Chief of Engineers' Gold Castles |url= https://www.usace.army.mil/About/History/Historical-Vignettes/Chief-Of-Engineers/089-Gold-Castles/ |access-date= 5 June 2021 |archive-date= 5 June 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210605025613/https://www.usace.army.mil/About/History/Historical-Vignettes/Chief-Of-Engineers/089-Gold-Castles/ |url-status= live }}</ref>]]
In October 1905, MacArthur received orders to proceed to Tokyo for appointment as aide-de-camp to his father. A man who knew the MacArthurs at this time wrote that "Arthur MacArthur was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever seen, until I met his son."<ref name="Digging Doug" /> They inspected Japanese military bases at [[Nagasaki]], [[Kobe]] and [[Kyoto]], then headed to India via Shanghai, Hong Kong, [[Java]] and Singapore, reaching [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] in January 1906. In India, they visited Madras, Tuticorin, Quetta, Karachi, the Northwest Frontier and the [[Khyber Pass]]. They then sailed to China via Bangkok and Saigon, and toured [[Guangzhou|Canton]], [[Qingdao]], Beijing, [[Tianjin]], [[Hankou]] and Shanghai before returning to Japan in June. The next month they returned to the United States,{{sfn|Manchester|1978|pp=66–67}} where Arthur MacArthur resumed his duties at Fort Mason, still with Douglas as his aide. In September, Douglas received orders to report to the [[2nd Engineer Battalion (United States)|2nd Engineer Battalion]] at the [[Fort Lesley J. McNair|Washington Barracks]] and enroll in the Engineer School. While there he served as "an aide to assist at White House functions" at the request of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].{{sfn|James|1970|pp=95–97}}

In August 1907, MacArthur was sent to the engineer district office in Milwaukee, where his parents were living. In April 1908, he was posted to [[Fort Leavenworth]], where he was given his first command, Company K, 3rd Engineer Battalion.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=95–97}} He became battalion [[adjutant]] in 1909 and then engineer officer at Fort Leavenworth in 1910. MacArthur was promoted to captain in February 1911 and was appointed as head of the Military Engineering Department and the Field Engineer School. He participated in exercises at [[San Antonio]], Texas, with the [[Divisions of the United States Army#Divisions of the United States Army (1911 to 1917)|Maneuver Division]] in 1911 and served in Panama on detached duty in January and February 1912. The sudden death of their father on 5 September 1912 brought Douglas and his brother Arthur back to Milwaukee to care for their mother, whose health had deteriorated. MacArthur requested a transfer to Washington, D.C., so his mother could be near [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]]. Army Chief of Staff, Major General [[Leonard Wood]], took up the matter with [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[Henry L. Stimson]], who arranged for MacArthur to be posted to the Office of the Chief of Staff in 1912.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=105–109}}