John's first week in the Army Staff passed like this. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Although with the efforts of Colonel Wells's gang, all kinds of rumors about him have been flying all over the sky. But John still did his own thing step by step. In his spare time, in addition to occasionally chatting with Bradley and a few other friends, he discussed with Major Martin the learning experience of "Theoretical Logistics".

In John's opinion, the higher Colonel Wells jumped now, the worse he would fall the following Monday. He is fully prepared, and there is really no need to spend more effort on this "jumping clown". If you have time, it is better to remediate military knowledge and seize the time to make up for your own shortcomings.

However, the newly graduated Second Lieutenant Miller and the department clerk, Sergeant Pakarina, had a "sense of departmental honor" and were indignant that their leaders had been "attacked by rumors" for no reason, and took the initiative to defend John many times. Pakarina, a little beauty, also quarreled with a gossip guy at a military service station for this.

John didn't say anything, but he still accepted their love in his heart. The next day, he specially brought them two snacks baked by Adele to express his gratitude.

Second Lieutenant Miller is relatively shy, and it is estimated that it is the first time he has received a gift from his boss, and he blushes for a long time and doesn't know what to say. Pakarina was much more refreshed, and while eating, she complained that John was too soft, and he didn't fight back when he was bullied, and even those who were his subordinates were also idle.

John likes these two little guys. Especially Pakarina, this girl is worthy of being from a military family (in this era, the members of the Army Women's Auxiliary Corps are generally military families) have a heroic spirit and are not pretentious at all.

Sunday was a rare good day, and the autumn rain, which had been falling intermittently for more than a week, finally stopped. Early in the morning, Adele commanded Mary and a few makeshift cooks. At noon today, John invited a few new friends he had met at the staff headquarters to his home. As the hostess, she not only has to help her husband organize today's party, but also pay attention to building a good relationship with the families of John's new colleagues, which is not an easy task.

For her husband suddenly becoming an army officer, Adele was also very difficult to accept at first. Although John repeatedly assured her that he was just "sitting in a different office," she was concerned about her husband's safety. But what can she do, except for trying to take care of the family and help her husband solve his worries, she can't do anything.

From John's point of view, Adele is already a very rare helper. Not only did he take good care of his family and baby daughter, but he also quickly adapted to his new role at FedEx. According to Walter, Adele is now very loved in the company, especially among those low-level employees, and her popularity is much stronger than that of their executives.

Near noon, Bradley arrived with his wife and daughter. Bradley, like John, had only one daughter. This led Adele to quickly develop a common language with Mrs. Bradley.

Today's guests are not just the Bradleys, John has made a few friends at the Army Staff this week, although he is very "low-key". In addition to his subordinate Major Martin, there was also a report on the same day as him - Mark? Major Clark and Robert? Major Crawford.

Mark? Clark was a full-fledged West Point graduate, two years younger than Bradley and Eisenhower. When Marshall was a brigade commander in the Third Division, Clark was the divisional assistant chief of staff for training and was recognized as an expert on amphibious warfare within the military.

After Marshall became chief of staff of the army, he began to systematically promote and train young officers in order to gradually replace those old generals with outdated ideas. Clark's move up from Fort Lewis to the General Staff Training Service was part of that plan.

In John's memory of his previous life, Clark eventually became a four-star general, serving as commander of the U.S. Ground Forces and commander-in-chief of the U.S. Far East. He also signed the Korean Armistice Agreement at Panmunjom on behalf of the United Nations Forces, becoming "the first U.S. general in history to sign a negotiation document that did not lead to victory." ”

Although Clark's status in the military circles was not low in the future, in later generations, even the Americans themselves did not evaluate him very well. When many people think of the representative of the incompetent generals of the US military during World War II, they think of him.

It's true that this training specialist is not very good at commanding wars. At the time of the Battle of Cassino, the casualties of the Fifth Army under Clark's command accounted for 90 percent of the Allied casualties in the entire campaign, so much so that the officers and soldiers below denounced him as a "murderer". After breaking through the Gustav Line, in order to seize the honor of entering Rome, he did not pursue the retreating German army. The result to Albert? Field Marshal Kesselring left the opportunity to set up the next line of defense.

Later in the war, Marshall had always used Clark as a political officer. Like Eisenhower, he was very good at dealing with the allies. In foreign affairs, Clark was indeed a good hand, and even at one time as the representative of the US Secretary of State, he negotiated treaties with the foreign ministers of Great Britain and the Soviet Union on Austria. This kind of work is not something that ordinary military generals can do.

John certainly didn't look down on Clark because of his skill in directing wars, and he was inferior to Clark in that regard. On the contrary, he admired Clark's political and diplomatic abilities. In a way, he sees Clark as his own kind. Now that he can have such a fate (the two reported to the staff headquarters on the same day), he will naturally not let go of the opportunity to make friends with him.

As for Robert? Major Crawford, who was in a similar situation to John. Crawford was a local engineer from New Orleans, who, like John, had never served in the army for a day. Because he had a lot of dealings with the military logistics department when he was in the National Standards Committee, he was recruited to the combat planning department as a logistics expert.

At present, Major Crawford is a staff officer under Wells, responsible for the replenishment of ammunition. Because of the similar circumstances of the two (both of them suddenly became professional officers from civilians, which is a bit out of place with the overall atmosphere in the army staff), and they enlisted in the army at the same time (in the army, this is a very important connection), the offices of the two are also door-to-door, so even if Crawford is a subordinate of Colonel Wells, the two are still relatively close these days, and they are good friends.

Moreover, John also had a special sense for this Crawford major. Not because he knew that Crawford would later serve as the head of the supply department (major general) of the Allied High Command, but because he had read a web novel based on Crawford in his previous life (a tribute to "From New Orleans to Berlin" by the 181 Tank Brigade in 1939). Although he was sure that this Crawford was not the time-traveler in the novel, he still had a natural affinity for him.

In fact, in addition to Clark and Crawford, there was another one named Beverly? Dunn's Seattle Engineer (Deputy Chief of Engineer Division and Brigadier General of the Allied High Command during World War II). However, he was later assigned to the Engineer Command in Maryland. John and he only had a one-sided relationship when they were reporting.

Bradley, Clark, Crawford, plus Martin, these four were the main takeaways from John's first week at the Army Staff. Among these four people, there will be at least one five-star general, one four-star general and one two-star major general in the future, and this network can be regarded as quite gorgeous.