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...Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
Soldiers also joined us, told the story of Seoul's fall. "Their tanks were too many," said one, "and their guns too big. We had nothing to fight them with. What can you do with rifles?" "Where are the American airplanes?" asked an MP sergeant-major bitterly...
...later years Haines' career at times took on aspects that were almost fabulous: he was the driver of a dashing team of four in the Winsor Volunteer Fire Brigade, the fastest mile sculler in England, and a Sergeant-Major in the cavalry under General Allenby, winning...
...Furlough should have started July 25, but the First Service Command forgot all about it. As an old time sergeant-major I indorse this one as highly probable...
...life served as a Kosack, that is in an irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered in Hamadan, Persia. . . . When Budenny eventually was heard from, he was a head of a regular cavalry outfit, nominally of course: you admit that Reds eventually had to send him to the school at the age of 46 years, and we back...