Did I say that he joined the reserves as an officer? I thought I'd just said he'd enlisted in the reserve, and would become an officer later. That, at any rate, is what the records show. There are actually two sets of records, one as an enlisted sailor, the other as an officer.Victoria Steele wrote:But I don't understand. You said that he joined the RESERVES as an OFFICER.
I'm no authority on military rankings, etc. but it appears that he "enlisted" in the reserve as an apprentice seaman in 1930, and was "commissioned" as an officer in 1933. It's almost as if he "joined" twice at different levels.How does that happen? I don't understand how you can be a sailor first class .... and an officer the next?
Not really. The letter he sent in 1929 sought information about the "Naval reserve... open to citizens who have never been in the Service [and] opportunities...for technicians and scientists." No mention of "officer" in that initial inquiry.And the other thing I don't really understand ... you said earlier BEFORE Townsend Brown went into the Navy as a common sailor but he had made inquiries before joining up as to what it would take to become an officer in the reserves.
Don't have a good answer to that one.So did he have all this planned from the first?
I see what you're driving at, but I really don't have any more light to shed than what I've already offered. You're right, it all seems odd, impossibly fore-thought. But, that's just how it goes here in the Parallel Universe.Who is calling the shots here, an odd feeling, the Navy? or seaman first class Brown? Please explain , if you can how he managed to end up where he seemed to want to go in the first place. Maybe thats the real question I was meaning to ask.
You look in the mirror and for some reason the image is not reversed.
Not much we can do but keep listening to Buffett...
--PS