Speaking of guns and horses
F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/14/13, 4:15 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/14/2013 1:02 PM, John H wrote:
Damn! Honestly, they don't pour out whatever knowledge you've gained
as an enlisted when you go to
OCS. ****, I was an SP5. I knew my artillery stuff pretty good!
John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!
What were people like yourself who were enlisted and then earned a
commission called in the Army?
In the Navy it was "Mustanger"
One of my uncles was an army mustang. He enlisted in the army right
after Pearl Harbor, was regularly promoted, achieved the rank of
sergeant, and after some sort of battlefield heroics was promoted to
the rank of officer. He died in action about six months later. My
mother, whose brother he was, told me about this, and she had
correspondence she showed me that her father and mother received from
the war department or the army or whomever that described his service,
promotion to officer, death, et cetera. After the war, my mother and
father met some soldiers from her brother's unit, and they all
described him as a "mustang" officer, meaning someone promoted up from
the ranks as a result of battlefield action.
I was a young boy when my mother told me about this, and I don't
recall any significant details. I never met that uncle because he died
before I was born, but when my mother's mother died some years later,
I attended the funeral and after she was buried, we walked over to
part of the cemetery where the uncle's gravestone was. I seem to
recall that there was a marker, but no body buried there, but I'm hazy
on that. It was a really bad day, because of my grandmother's death
and funeral.
Sure.
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