#move along kljhgf

[oldtmer]

hi, i’m on my shit again -- but i needed to place this somewhere while i work out timelines for my gatsby prequel & also my former drill instructor ass is seething at this information

we know gatsby was a big fuckin’ liar, but telling everyone he was a major in the first world war after only having been in the military for one year, or maximum two years including training, etc ... even with the possibility of his being thrown into a battalion leader role because of causalities in the field (which was not uncommon then, especially for his division), there’s no goddamn way he could have been anything more than a corporal -- and even then, if he had been thrown into a “major” rank, with the filling of positions due to casualties, the highest he could have been is a sergeant major. and that’s really pushing it, and really stretching the luck of gatsby. he’d have had to have months waived from his TIG in order to just become a corporal in that time frame, and even then he was just some penniless farmer’s child. unless he was a fucking damn good soldier in training and on the field, it’s just safer to assume that gatsby is a big fuckin’ liar (which we already knew), and move on from there.

but then there’s a five year gap between the death of dan cody and his time meeting daisy. he could have, theoretically, joined the military for the start of the world war like nick had -- wherein nick served in the 3rd division (good for him, he’s a fucking badass i don’t care what anyone says), but gatsby served in the 7th infantry division (which was only established in 1917), and he met daisy while in training. in 1917 ... so, what the fuck did he do in those five years? that’s for me to find out and write about my dudes 👈👈