The next morning, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson went to John's villa on Long Island with carefully prepared gifts. For www.biquge.info the safety of his precious son's life, Anderson has made a lot of money. After inquiring overnight that John was proficient in Chinese and liked oriental culture, he took out several antiques that he had brought back from the Far East.

Unfortunately, the Andersons missed again this time. John received a call from Stimson last night and had rushed back to Washington overnight, leaving only Adele with her children on Long Island.

After learning about the Andersons' intentions, Adele is also very sympathetic and understanding of the old couple. She and John only have one son, little Eric, so they can naturally empathize with what happened to them. However, over the years, Adele has rarely interfered in her husband's affairs. Unless she had John's prior instructions, she would not have made the right to agree to anything on her husband's behalf.

So, instead of acceding to the Andersons' request on the spot, Adele offered a compromise and invited them to her home in Washington this weekend.

Although they failed to achieve the desired goal, after all, there was still a glimmer of hope, and the Andersons left with great gratitude. When it came time to send them out, Adele said that she would not leave the pile of gifts behind. In the end, under the persuasion of the old couple, they reluctantly accepted an oriental "amulet" nominally given to little Eric.

A few days later, when Adele showed John the "white stone amulet in the shape of a tiger", John was so surprised that he "confiscated" it from his son.

Adele didn't understand, but John recognized it, this "talisman" was clearly a mutton fat jade tiger charm accessory in the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. And whether it is the carving or the material is quite good, when the collection of China is hot in later generations, it is no problem to sell dozens or millions of soft girls.

Of course, John's family is not short of this money, and jade is not popular in the United States. The reason why John is so "heart-warming" is because in ancient China, the tiger talisman was used by the emperor to dispatch troops and generals, and it was a symbol of military power. Although this mutton fat jade tiger talisman is just a tiger talisman as an accessory, not a real soldier talisman (the tiger talisman was gradually replaced by a token in the Song Dynasty), but as soon as John was about to get off the army to lead the troops, someone sent a "tiger talisman", is there a better color than this?

Just rush this, John will also help the Andersons settle Richard's affairs. Don't you just don't want him to go to war, it's so easy. John didn't wait for the Andersons to come to the door, called and asked about Richard's personal situation, and helped him find a good place to go that day - the United States Army Reserve Officers Training Corps.

As early as 1916, the U.S. National Defense Act made it clear that the Secretaries of the Services may establish and maintain a reserve officer training program at any civilian educational institution in accordance with the rules promulgated by the President. Now that there is such a shortage of officers, the War Department has set up military science departments in more than 200 local colleges and universities (the training system for reserve officers in the United States is relatively complicated, and it is not clear to explain it in a few thousand words, so let's understand it as a national defense student).

In addition to 6-7 officers to serve as directors and professors, the military faculty of each university also needs several sergeants to serve as instructors. John has already arranged it. As soon as Richard's recruit training was over, he would get him the rank of corporal and send him back to his former school as a military instructor to train his classmates.

The Andersons couldn't have been more satisfied with John's arrangement. What could be more reassuring to them than to get their children back to school? The day after receiving John's phone call, they came to Washington with gifts to thank them. However, they were not able to meet John this time, and John went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to prepare for his return to school.

That's right, John, who is 36 years old this year, is also going back to school. Unlike Richard, who went back to be a teacher, he really went back to school as a student this time.

On the night of Columbus Day, John rushed back to Washington overnight because Stimson had already finalized his next move with Marshall. According to the agreement reached by the two bigwigs, John will go to the 82nd Infantry Division as deputy chief of staff and chief of logistics. However, before taking office, he had to go to Fort Leavenworth Command and Staff School (later referred to as Fort Leavenworth Military Academy) for three months of professional training.

After all, John didn't even receive a day's formal military education, and no one was at ease when he was directly asked to serve in a front-line combat unit. Fort Leavenworth Military Academy is the military's school for mid-level officers, and almost every officer at the school level takes turns to receive 10 months of professional training here.

Recently, due to the shortage of officers in the expansion of the Army, the Fort Leavenworth Military Academy has offered a three-month crash course for mid-level officers in the Army and National Guard. Stimson and Marshall shoved John in as well.

In fact, it was good for John that they did so. Even if you've just been to a water, it's not good to look good on your resume in the future. You know, the U.S. Army is an academic world. Without a military education background, it is difficult to rise to a high position.

This is not alarmist. In later generations, some people once analyzed the difference between the generals of the US Army and the generals of Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. Unlike the German generals, who were mostly from military families, and the Soviet generals, who were mostly workers or soldiers, most of the generals in the U.S. Army had academic backgrounds.

No way, because the U.S. Army was too small before the war in history, the vast majority of U.S. Army generals during World War II did not have high ranks before the war, and they had little combat experience and experience in leading troops. Even Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower, who were more senior, were all school officers when the war broke out in 1939. And in the US Navy at the same time, people like Nimitz and Halsey were already vice admirals.

Since everyone has no experience in actual combat, when the size of the unit is rapidly expanding, how to select a suitable commander can only be judged by the theoretical level. Therefore, the resume of the military academy is extremely important during this period.

Therefore, most U.S. Army generals in history had no combat experience before the war, and Eisenhower, like Eisenhower, did not even have the experience of commanding a regiment independently. However, the vast majority of generals have teaching experience, and of the 34 commanders of the 22 armies of the U.S. Army, only McLean, who became the commander of the 19th Army in 1944, has not been a teacher in a military school.

Therefore, in the U.S. Army, which attaches great importance to educational background, John, who has never attended a military school for a day, is almost as different as an illiterate person mixed in with a group of university professors. If he didn't make up for this lesson, his army career would basically be over.

John didn't think he could be like McLean, who didn't receive a day of higher education, wasn't even a regular army soldier, and won the favor of his superiors by virtue of his solid leadership record, and was promoted from a National Guard division commander to an army commander.

Besides, McLean also received three months of accelerated National Guard training at Fort Leavenworth Military Academy before the war, but I don't know if it was John's class. However, the training of the Army and the National Guard is separate, and even if it is a session, it is estimated that there will be no overlap.

Either way, John was about to become a cadet. It's been more than ten years since I graduated from college, and I suddenly turned around and changed back into a student, which is really amazing. I don't know if he, who is in his 30s, can still cope with the cramming crash course. If you can't pass the final exam by then, it will be a shame.

For this reason, John had to go to Middleton, the godfather of little Eric, to help before school started. Middleton has taught at the Leavenworth Military Academy for so many years, and the army commander has taught 17 of them, so it should not be difficult to teach him, the deputy chief of staff of the infantry division who has not yet taken office.