12-05-2006, 08:28 PM
Onaway, I believe you are looking at a a replacement Infantryman. Most replacements
were assigned when leaving for overseas a "paper address for a paper outfit" and the same thing on arrival in ETO. More "paper outfits" only for a mailing address that seldom worked out for incomming mail. Yes, I went through the same damn thing.
Very quickly we were assigned as replacements for Infanry companies in a division and
then had a proper mailing address and "belonged to them". Looks like the same thing
you speak of..