After Monday's regular meeting, Colonel Wells and others stopped a lot. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info John can be regarded as opening up the situation in the battle planning department after this battle. At least when he came out and went in, there were a lot more people who took the initiative to greet him, and he didn't have to face poker faces anymore.

The Congress is still squabbling over the amendment of the Neutrality Act, so John's work is now relatively leisurely, much easier than it was when he was in the Military Production Commission. He spent most of the day getting acquainted with the business of the Division with Martin's help and making up for his lack of military knowledge. Occasionally, he visited Bradley, Clarke, and Crawford's offices.

For the next week, John was at ease like an office worker, going to work on time every day, leaving work on time, and even going to the kindergarten to pick up his daughter from school. Soon, some people had "opinions" about his serious unsaturated work tasks. This man was his immediate boss, Major General Bull, Chief of the Operational Planning Division. At the behest of Chief of Staff Marshall, Chief Bull gave John an additional task.

"Lieutenant Colonel Vanderbilt, I need you to visit Pittsburgh soon." Major General Bull handed John a document: "Brigadier General Hodges is in charge of a large reinforcement training camp there, where several troops have just returned from Asia, and there will be 9,000 new recruits to be stationed next spring." I need you to take a couple of logistics officers there to check the camp's arsenal and winter supplies. ”

"Is it up to me to decide who participates?" John asked a question that was of greatest concern to him. At present, he is only a military layman who talks about the army on paper, and his understanding of the army's logistical supply work is still limited to the various rules and regulations in the documents. Let him lead the team down to inspect the work, and it will not work without the help of trusted subordinates.

Wells happened to be in charge of logistics, and it couldn't have been easier for that old guy to take the opportunity to trick John. The most likely scenario is that John leads the team down to take a look around and find nothing wrong. When he came back and handed in the report, the logistics of the Pittsburgh training camp began to go wrong. When the time comes, John will be a laughing stock.

Major General Bull naturally knew what John was worried about, he nodded, and handed John a list: "The people who go down this time are all personally selected by me." Considering that you are leading the team for the first time, you can pick another deputy yourself. ”

John took the list, and there were 10 people on it. Major General Bull was "caring", knowing that John might not recognize all of them, and each name was followed by a simple note. John took a general scan, and the division of labor was still very detailed, and the inspection of weapons, ammunition, clothing, provisions, vehicles, oil, medicines, and barracks were all in charge of special personnel, and Major Crawford was also impressively listed.

John put the list and papers away and asked, "When will you go?" ”

"The morning after tomorrow, there's an Army Air Corps transport plane going to Pittsburgh to deliver medicines, and you can take that plane." Major General Bull laughed like an old fox who had stolen a chicken.

"It's really hard to cut the door, and I don't even arrange a commuter plane." John complained in his heart. He felt that Major General Bull was deliberate, and he wanted to make him, a "pampered young man of a broad family", suffer a little so that he could satisfy his bad taste.

When he returned from the commissioner's office, John approached Martin and asked him to prepare to go to Pittsburgh with him the day after tomorrow. Anyway, the department is fine, and Chandler is not afraid of any trouble with him if he stays at home, and there is no need for Martin to stay and watch the house. Moreover, several of the troops in the current training camp in Pittsburgh had just returned from Asia, and Martin had been in the Far East for so many years, so he knew all of them well, so it was convenient for John to understand the situation.

Adele was a little dissatisfied with her husband's business trip after just a few days of stability, but she still tried her best to prepare her husband's bags. It's almost November, and the winter in Pittsburgh can be very cold, and the attentive Adele has prepared a few more pairs of wool socks for John.

In the howling cold wind, John and his party took a transport plane to Pittsburgh, a steel city in southwestern Pennsylvania. It's just winter, and it's already snowing in Pittsburgh. The area around the military airfield is covered with snow, and in the distance at the mouth of the Ohio River, blast furnaces of steel mills are spewing light blue smoke.

After nearly 2 hours of jolting in the cargo compartment of the transport plane, John himself did not react much. After all, after playing with airplanes for so many years, he has even tried aerobatics, how could he be afraid of this. Several logistics officers who had been sitting in the office all year round, including Major Crawford, had turned pale, and they almost vomited on the spot.

"Robert, you're alright." John inquired with concern about Crawford's situation.

"I'm fine, uh~ it's just a little disgusting, it'll be fine in a while." Crawford retched and waved his hand, signaling that he didn't have a big problem.

"Okay, everyone pack up, the person who picked us up is here." John saw several army officers walking in the distance, and hurriedly reminded everyone to tidy up their appearance, so as not to lose the face of the staff in front of the lower departments.

The Pittsburgh Replenishment Training Camp still attached great importance to the inspection mission of the General Staff this time, and Colonel Wade, the deputy of Brigadier General Hodges, personally brought people to the airport to greet them. Behind Colonel Wade, John also spotted Eisenhower.

"Ike, why are you here?" John thought Eisenhower was still at Fort Benning.

"The 15th Regiment was transferred to Pittsburgh last Friday, and now it is training with the 36th Regiment." Eisenhower first saluted John, then hugged him warmly, "You're also a lieutenant colonel now, it's amazing." When Omar told me, I couldn't believe it. ”

Obviously, the military uniform that John was wearing now greatly narrowed the distance between him and Eisenhower. "I heard that you and Martin led the team this time, so I came with Colonel Wade to pick you up. By the way, what about Martin? ”

"I'm here." Martin, who was walking at the back of the line, hurriedly stepped forward and greeted his old comrade-in-arms for many years.

"Let's get in the car, it's cold in Pittsburgh. General Hodges is still waiting for everyone at the camp. Colonel Wade beckoned John and his party to get in the car and head straight to the reinforcement training camp.

The camp in Pittsburgh was built after Marshall's expansion program and is now home to four infantry regiments repatriated from the Far East. More than 9,000 veterans conscripted from several states in the Midwest will be stationed at the camp next spring. When the time comes, these people will be reorganized into two infantry divisions.

Hodges, as the supreme commander of the camp, received the inspection team led by John at the command post. The veteran, who dropped out of West Point in 1906, fought in World War I and served as vice principal of the Fort Benning Infantry School. John knows that historically, Hodges served as the commander of the Third Army and the First Army in World War II, and was a four-star general. In April 1945, he led the army to a victorious rendezvous with the Soviet army on the banks of the Elbe.

Whether it was his age or rank, Hodges didn't need to be too polite to John, a temporary lieutenant colonel who had only been in the army for two weeks. It was only out of respect for his superiors that he routinely showed the following and introduced the basic situation of the training camp to John and the others. After that, he went about his own business, and asked Colonel Wade to accompany John to the troops to inspect it.