Art’s Reviews > The General and His Daughter: The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to His Daughter Barbara > Status Update

This being a general has some nice things about it I have ben told but in my case, unfortunately, it means a reduction in pay. There is an admininstrative technicality that takes away my jump pay; there is not supposed to be a parachute general in a airborne division. It seems sort of silly since I will continue to jump anyway but red tape is red tape. -General James Gavin, October 10, 1943