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It was unusual for a Major to command so small a unit, even if it served as the bivouac for administrative Headquarters, Greece. These kinds of units were usually commanded by lieutenants or captains. Major Joinagain was the highest-ranking officer in Greece by time served second only to the bird colonel on the mountain.
Major Joinagain was famous in his own small way. When I was at HQ Army DC, a soldier came in who was AWOL absent without leave, from guess where, that same unit I would come to find out when I got there, commanded by Major Joinagain, I would-then be assigned. Awol wanted advice on what he should do, and he told stories about how crazy the place was. I paid almost no attention at the time, and even after I got to Greece myself, it was some time before it dawned on me, that I was in the one and same unit. But one thing I did know, before I had left DC, there were two places in the army that had the most psychiatric cases, according to friends in the Pentagon that I then knew, and these were my DC HQs unit I was already in, and the unit I would eventually arrive at in Greece.
When in Greece my unit was one of three, on a US compound inside on the edge of a Greek Air force Base, about a half-hour from Athens. It consisted of six whitish one story stone buildings. A mess hall, with store, rec-room and a pool table, two barracks one containing a tiny library of which housed administrative people, the other of ordinance personal all of which were for unmarried E3 and below, not high enough ranking to live off post.
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