He worked only for me, took orders only from me, and had unlimited access to me day or night. He ran the NCOs of the division; set the standards, checked up on them, and was fearless. My first order to him: ‘Sergeant Major, I don’t want any more problems in the villages around our camps. No more fights. No more problems with the Koreans.’ He straightened things out fast and kept them straight with NCOs in the bars and on the streets working with the military police.
