I’ll never forget Major Charron, he was a great guy. I always felt like he was more sympathetic to the enlisted men then the other officers, probably because he was a mustang officer. There were a couple of our officers who were (for want of a better term) “haughty”, but the majority were good guys, even though there was a necessary split between officer and enlisted. I can only remember one time when they fraternized off the record. A bunch of us was at Andy’s Ebb Tide bar when Captain Cannon and a couple of the other pilots came in wearing their dress whites. They came over to our table and bought us a round or two, sat down and commenced telling a few sea stories. They were great guys.
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We had a Captain Washington in our detachment that was a mustang. He was a Carlson Raider in WWII, the Japs called him Tashawa (mighty warrior) he was pulled out of a fox hole in Korea and sent to OCS. One great Marine that all the men loved.