Chapter 2 Preparation for Enlistment
John is not honored to be favored by Arnold and Somerville. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he put a good business tycoon in the wrong way, what kind of army to join. If he hadn't come out to start a business and was still working in his family's railroad company, he would have had to go to the army during the war. But with his current status and status, fools know that it is far more useful to let him produce arms for the army than to let him join the army.
When John first agreed to join the Military Production Commissioner, he thought that he had basically escaped the fate of service. At least, in the early stages of the war, you don't have to go into service. So, when Arnold and Somerville offered him an olive branch, he asked Uncle Stimson to come forward and politely refused.
It's good that Uncle Stimson doesn't come forward, but when he comes out, he causes trouble. As the leading figure of the main battle faction, the new Secretary of War Stimson's every move was watched by the gang of "isolationists".
Now, you, Stimson, keep saying that you want to reorganize the army for war, strengthen army building, and call on everyone to join the army. Now that the juniors around you have been drafted, why do you come forward to obstruct it? Aren't you engaging in double standards? Do you just want the children of ordinary people to go to the battlefield and die?
Regardless of John's special circumstances, the "isolationists" began to spread rumors in Washington. Soon, John couldn't join the army.
When Uncle Stimson and Cousin William teamed up to find John and inform him that he had to enlist in the army as soon as possible, John couldn't believe his ears. Who is he provoking and provoking whom, why is he so unlucky!
Fortunately, Marshall was still generally knowledgeable and took the initiative to arrange another position for John. If John did go to Arnold or Somerville, Stimson, the Secretary of the Army, would lose face.
Marshall assigned John the position of assistant to the chief of the War Planning Division (also known as the War Planning Division and the Operations Division) of the Army General Staff, and gave him a pair of silver leaves (with the rank of lieutenant colonel). Of course, his "lieutenant colonel" was only a temporary military rank, which was commensurate with his position as assistant to the commissioner and facilitated his dealings with fellow officers. His current official rank is only lieutenant in the army.
That's just the preferential treatment that Marshall gave him in the face of Uncle Stimson. You must know that those West Point students have worked hard in the military academy for four years, and they are generally only a second lieutenant when they graduate. Only a very small number of the best cadets are awarded the rank of lieutenant. John, not to mention the regular military academy, he didn't even participate in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps, and as soon as he joined the army, he was a lieutenant, and the starting point was high enough.
So John was not dissatisfied with this arrangement, look at Eisenhower, who entered West Point in 1911, and when he graduated, he didn't even mix up as a second lieutenant, and he was a sergeant major. Now that he has been in service for more than 20 years, isn't he also a lieutenant colonel? Besides, he doesn't really plan to mix in the military circles for the rest of his life, and any position or rank doesn't mean much to him, and he doesn't live on this military salary and retirement pay.
John was depressed that when he joined the army, many of his previous plans had to be reversed. Although the job of assistant to the chief of the operational planning division of the Army General Staff is still in an office in Washington, D.C., he can go home normally after work every day and will not be locked up in the barracks. But after all, wearing this military uniform, many things that can be done in the military production committee will be inconvenient to do later.
The most immediate impact is, what about Hughes Aircraft Company? The control that he finally got from Hughes and worked hard to build a good situation, should he return it to Hughes? This dude isn't going to be as nonsense as he was in history.
But if you don't hand it over to Hughes, who can control the situation in the company? Reginald, the company's deputy manager? This German Jew has only been in office for a year, and he is in charge of the company's day-to-day affairs, and it is estimated that he has little chance of winning if he is asked to compete for orders with other aircraft manufacturers on behalf of the company.
Assistant General Manager Tom Jr? This kid has grown up very quickly in the past two years, and he is stationed at Hughes Aircraft Company on behalf of John, and he is doing a decent job. But he is still young after all, even if he has the guidance of old Watson behind him, he is still almost hot, and he can't fight those old fritters of other aviation manufacturing companies.
After thinking about it, in the end, it can only be Hughes's brother. John wrote a detailed memo of his plans for the P-51, B-24, B-36, H-4, and other aircraft and handed it to Hughes. As for whether Hughes will eventually adopt it, John can only resign himself to fate.
"There's no end to money." John comforted himself with this, as long as Hughes didn't ruin his home.
With a sigh, John took the enlistment notice and got up to leave the study. Little Ella went to kindergarten, and Adele recently became interested in the staff canteen, and drove out after lunch, saying that she went to a drive-in restaurant for a field trip. John, who has now resigned from the Military Production Committee, has become an idler.
He looked out the window, and the rain was still falling, so he asked Mary to bring her umbrella and put on her coat and prepare to go out. Tonight, Walter, Dvořák, and Reilly came to Washington, and clamored to invite him to dinner and do something for him. Listen, he is still strong, those who know understand that he is going to join the army, and those who don't know still think that he is going to the execution ground.
The meeting took place at a club not far from John's house, and John's old subordinates were all in the group, except for Jacob, who didn't normally participate in such activities, and even Tom Jr. flew in from Los Angeles to join in the fun.
In addition to John, the protagonist of tonight's party is Ensign Fred, who is about to be freshly baked. He, a classmate in the mathematics department of Columbia University, was also drafted into the army. Similar to John, Fred's enlistment was "forced". It's just that the person who "persecuted" him was his father, Brigadier General Robit Ken, the director of the Fort Benning Infantry School. The old general saw that he was too old to get a chance to go to the battlefield, so he kicked several of his sons into the army.
Seeing Fred, who was frowning, John was suddenly in a much better mood. This guy is worse than himself, he was thrown into the front-line army by his father, and it is said that he will go to the Dior training center of the Western Military Region to eat sand next month.
Whether it is "the death of a rabbit and a sorrowful fox" or "sympathy for the same disease", John was moved by compassion and decided to pull this old subordinate and old classmate along. Didn't Brigadier General Somerville worry about the lack of professional logistical personnel? Fred is a serious expert in co-ordination, he was the dispatcher of the railroad company in Cincinnati, and the head of transportation business in the two years of FedEx, which is definitely more in line with Somerville's requirements than John, the two knives that are just talking.
John told Fred about the idea of introducing him to the staff supply, and Fred didn't agree. He was a year older than John, and it wouldn't cost him his life to be a second lieutenant platoon commander at his age, and to fight with a bunch of big-headed soldiers.
John, this can be regarded as a good deed. By the way, he also sold Brigadier Somerville a favor, hoping that this old man would not hold a grudge against him in the first place.