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Post by victor on Feb 25, 2010 8:08:36 GMT 8
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Post by okla on Feb 25, 2010 23:37:52 GMT 8
Hey Vic...This is good, interesting stuff. It would appear that the guys attending the technical school were under the auspices of the 31st Infantry Regiment whilst TDY to Manila. In other words, Military Police from the 31st, were the folks dragging offenders from the bars and dance halls of the "Pearl of the Orient". I have always heard that when replacements arrived in Hawaii and the PI, that the biggest, meanest looking recruits coming down the gang plank off the troopship were grabbed up for Military Police duty. These would be the same types who would be checking Private Bowers' Class A pass. Ah, those must have been the days. Anything to escape the poverty and unemployment of the depression back home.
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Post by victor on Feb 26, 2010 11:23:42 GMT 8
Very interesting indeed. I wonder which one he is in the photo.
It's funny you say "the biggest, meanest looking" were assigned to MP duty. Wasn't Wermuth originally an MP officer before being transferred to the 57th Infantry?
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Post by okla on Feb 27, 2010 0:03:10 GMT 8
Hey Vic...It would appear that the good Captain would be just the type to command an MP unit, wouldn't it? At one time during my 4 year hitch in the USAF we had a squadron commander who had just returned to the states from Germany where he was a stockade commander. He literally ran our squadron like it was a stockade. Everybody literally hated the guy with a passion. It was said that his mother must have been scared of zebras since he delighted in"busting" long service senior NCOs for trivial offenses. Soon after I shipped to Korea I heard from some long suffering buddies back in the USA that the Wing Commander went on a crusade and had this tyrant Major transferred to some menial assignment in another part of the country. This was much appreciated by the guys still stationed there, but it didn't get those NCOs their hard earned stripes back. I betcha Arthur Weymuth was cut from the same material as that long ago Squadron Commander of whom I speak. Cheers.
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Post by victor on Feb 27, 2010 0:37:51 GMT 8
Your description of that stockade commander reminds me of Ernest Borgnine in From Here to Eternity
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