66mustang

Everyone always wants to have an "Officers Gun".


When you deal with civilians, they don't have a lot of concept of the military, and they have no idea what they do. I don't mean this disparagingly, as I retired from the Army as a enlisted Sergeant, but over the years, as I talk to civilians, and you mention you were in the army, they want to know if I was an officer. Or they have a Brother, Dad, Uncle, and he was a Major or Colonel. It isn't very often I hear someone (strictly civilian) who says, "Oh, my Dad retired as a Corporal, he would have retired as a Sergeant Major, but he kept getting into trouble,... "


In the movies, you see some Major and he can't make a decision unless the General okays it... Sorry, in some regards that is true, but I know too many Majors, let along Buck Sergeants that make some pretty important decisions. It simply comes down to movie makers having no clue about the military.


So, to make a long story short, those stories about the GI that captured the Sergeant and took a Luger / PPK, etc., off of him, I believe a lot more than the SS Officer who didn't need it anymore.


Ed