The brothers of Company E had spent seven days of vacation and had returned to the barracks on time, and despite all the indulgence and misdeeds in London, no one had taken leave or been late.

However, on the first day, there was still a problem. Smith sprained his foot in practice, which made Winters frown. Obviously, some of the brothers are very unfamiliar with Izuma.

"You're fine!" Winters asked anyway.

"I'm sorry, sir, I was just a little careless!" Smith also looked embarrassed, and he muttered an explanation to Winters. In fact, there are obviously not a few people like him who seem unfamiliar.

"GIs," said Winters, standing in front of the company, "you are paratroopers who have been trained for two years, and have participated in the battle of Normandy, so don't act like a new soldier, knowing that this will cost you your life in the future battles." Think of the brothers who have lost their lives in this battle, you should be ashamed! ”

Winters's words were harsh, and he rarely spoke to his brothers like that. Parks knows why. It is an emotionally unbearable thing for anyone to write letters to the mothers of the fallen soldiers every day for a few days. Winters was just looking for an excuse to vent, but more worried about his brothers' future.

The next day's training, the brothers were much stronger. Everyone seemed serious, and no one was doing anything like Smith's. And because of the good news the next day, many of the brothers of E-Company seemed elated.

At the end of his morning training, Winters announced a number of promotions before the company was disbanded.

Kawood? Lip became a sergeant major of the second class in the company; Freud? Tybert was promoted to sergeant of the company; David? Landowman, Bill? Goneri, Donno? Malachi, John? Martin also became a sergeant; Warren? Mook, Joe? Toy, Paul? Rogers and Mike? Lenny, Eddard? Tibo was promoted from private to sergeant; Pat? Christensen, Walter? Gordon, John? Plesa and Lavin? Reese, Leo? Boyle, Orton? Moore, Jerry? White was promoted from private to corporal.

All the brothers who were promoted stood upright, and they couldn't hide their excitement. And they don't intend to hide their emotions at all. Many brothers looked at them with envy.

"Disband!" When Winters' order was given, the crowd jumped for joy, and they surrounded the guys.

"Congratulations, John!" Landowman held out his hand to Martin.

Martin looked at Landowan and said solemnly, "You mean I look like a big guy now, too?" Then he burst out laughing and gave Landaman a hug.

Lip called out to Lenny, who was laughing with his brothers, the two first shook hands, and then hugged tightly, Lip was very happy for Lenny, he patted Lenny's shoulder and smiled: "Congratulations! The brothers have been waiting for this day for a long time. After Lip and Lenny hugged, Martin, Tybert, and Gurnery all gathered around and hugged Lenny.

Lenny was the sergeant who played a leading role in the last mutiny against Sauber, and after the mutiny, he was demoted from sergeant to private, and now finally a sergeant. The sergeants who participated in the mutiny at that time understood this mood very well and spontaneously came to congratulate him.

"Thanks, guys!" Lenny nodded, and to be honest, he was very excited, both to return to the sergeant, and to keep so many brothers remembering what he had done at the time.

There were many soldiers and non-commissioned officers promoted this time, which was a huge boost to morale after a major war, especially after a campaign that suffered heavy casualties.

"Actually, for us, you should have been promoted to sergeant a long time ago!" Landowman smiled and said, "Maybe you can let Sauber take another look, he can't bother us." ”

"Sauber?" Martin suddenly said, "Someone has seen him on Utah Beach before. Any idea what he's up to now? Guys! ”

"Don't sell it, say it!" Gurnei said.

"He became a logistics supply officer." Martin laughed, "He also saw a few brothers from Company E, but no one wanted to come up and greet him." If it were me, maybe I'd say hello to him: Sir, when will we bring us some beef, we don't want to nibble on the damn K dry food anymore! ”

"Yes, that's how he should be greeted!" Goneri nodded hurriedly.

Li Pu couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. Then he patted Lenny on the shoulder and left. The brothers' grudge against Sauber has always existed. But Li Pu also knew that no matter how bad Sauber was, his strict training of the E Company brothers still benefited the E Company brothers, and Li Pu knew this very well.

After the team disbanded, Winters waved to the Welsh, Compton and other officers.

"Go to the company!" He didn't say anything more and walked directly to the company.

Parks followed, along with Nickerson and a lieutenant officer in the company. Wales and Compton didn't know him, but Parks had speculated to himself, but he couldn't get the point.

"This is Thomas? Lieutenant Pikak, a substitute officer at the regimental headquarters! Winters introduced the officers who came in, and then introduced the officers in the company to Lieutenant Pikak.

"Wales, Compton, Parks!" Winters introduces the past in order. Every time someone is introduced, Pikak will go up and hug him very warmly, which makes the three of them not very comfortable, after all, they are not familiar with each other.

"Parks?" As Pikak stood in front of Parks, his eyes lit up, "Oh my God, it's great to be able to see you in person." I've heard of you, in fact the entire 506 regiment knows about you, you're too famous, it's a pleasure to be in the same company as you, it's my honor! Saying that, Picard and Parks had a bear hug, regardless of whether Parks wanted it or not, and then had a close-to-face etiquette with Parks, and laughed, looking overjoyed.

"Yes, I'm glad to meet you too!" Parks touched his cheek a little helplessly, and then shrugged his shoulders at the stunned Wales and the others, expressing helplessness.

"Alright, I have something to announce now!" Winters coughed dryly, then took out a few orders for appointment, and said to Wales first: "Harry, Colonel Zinck has decided to promote you to lieutenant because of your courage and achievements in battle. So saying, he showed the order to Wales, and took off the brass bar from his collar, and pinned a silver bar to him.

Wales happily hugged Winters, then picked up the appointment order and smiled at Winters: "Dick, thank you, really, I don't even know what to say!" ”

Winters nodded and smiled, "Harry, I will transfer you to the company headquarters as my chief staff officer." ”

Wales' eyes lit up, then he nodded and smiled, "Great, Dick, I really can't think of a better position than this." It seems that I will be looking forward to the future work even more. ”

"Well done, Harry!" Winters patted Wales' arm, then smiled at Compton: "Buck, Colonel Zinke has also promoted you to the rank of lieutenant, this is your appointment order!" As he spoke, he handed him the order, took a silver bar from his pocket, and put it on for Compton. Then shook hands with him and smiled, "Congratulations, Buck!" ”

"Thanks, Dick!" Compton pursed his lips, to be honest, he was also excited in his heart, although he didn't care much about this, but when Parks was promoted to lieutenant, he was still a little disappointed in his heart. Now that I've been promoted, I'm naturally very happy.

"Now the first and third rows remain the same, and after the second row Wales leaves office, Pikak will be the platoon commander." Winters smiled at Pikak as he spoke: "I'm really looking forward to you leading the brothers in the second platoon to do a good job!" ”

"I will, sir!" Pikak gave a military salute to Winters.

Parks couldn't help but smile wryly, Pikak was still sent to E Company, although he was not the first platoon commander, but he still served as the second platoon commander. This is one of the officers that Winters later dislikes, a dead dogma, and his brothers have a lot of resentment against him.

"Alright, guys, now our positions will basically be filled, and there will be officers reporting in a few days. And we will also replenish the full number of recruits. This is great news for us! Winters smiled at the crowd.

Parks walked out of the company, and he went straight to the first platoon. For the soldiers who were promoted today, he had to reassign them to work. He was around the barracks in the first row and first met Landowman.

"Landowman, gather the brothers in a row, I have something to announce!" Parks Road.

"Yes, sir!" Landowan nodded, and then began to gather the brothers.

Because the company had just been disbanded, the crowd had not dispersed, and soon, the brothers in the first row had arrived.

"I didn't want to disturb everyone, but today someone in our platoon was promoted, so I had to rearrange the work in the platoon!" Parks' first words made the brothers laugh unconsciously.

"The first class leader was made up of John? Sergeant Martin as the officer, Mike? Sergeant Lenny served as his deputy. Parks nodded at the two of them, then went on to announce, "The leader of the second shift is David?" Sergeant Randolphman, he's one of the best soldiers I've ever met, Donno? Sergeant Malachi assisted him as deputy squad leader. Bill? Sergeant Goneri served as the third squad leader, Joe? Sergeant Toy served as the deputy squad leader. ”

"There are so many surprises for me today!" Goneri muttered in a low voice below. In fact, he used to be the squad leader, but Toy served as his deputy, which was what made him excited, after all, Toy was one of the closest people he had a relationship with in E-Company.

"But, sir! I have a question. Goneri raised his hand.

"Ask, Goneri!" Parks nodded at him.

Goneri looked at the brothers around him, and then said, "Sir, we don't have enough manpower now, we still have manpower, and the establishment of each class is not complete. What are we going to do? Do you want to fight the Germans again? ”

Everyone looked at Parks, and they were expecting the answer to that question.

"We will be full and fight with the Germans!" Parks hesitated for a moment and looked at the brothers, "It will be replenished by new paratroopers." They will make up for our losses. He suddenly sighed in his heart, E Company will add many new faces, so is E Company still the previous E Company?

(To be continued)