Editing Caspar Weinberger (section)

===Military service===
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Weinberger enlisted in the U.S. Army as a [[Private (rank)#United States Army|private]]. He was sent to the Army's [[Officer Candidate School (United States Army)|Officer Candidate School]] at Fort Benning, Georgia (now [[Fort Moore]]), where he was commissioned a [[Second lieutenant#United States|second lieutenant]]. During World War II, he served with the [[41st Infantry Division (United States)|41st Infantry Division]] in the Pacific; by the war's end, he was a [[Captain (armed forces)|captain]] on the intelligence staff of General [[Douglas MacArthur]]. Early in life, Weinberger developed an interest in politics and history, and, during the war years, a special admiration for [[Winston Churchill]], whom he would later cite as an important influence in his life. From 1945 to 1947, Weinberger was a law clerk for U.S. circuit judge [[William Edwin Orr]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]]. He then entered private practice at a San Francisco law firm.