PATTON

Today I learned about General George S. Patton and what a MIGHTY BADASS he is and always shall be. All considerations of armored warfare come from him, the Tank Godfather, who used tactics from Stonewall Jackson, who of course got it from the elder battlers, amen. That is, without forgetting the later developmental work and legacies of big boys Rommel and Guderian. Patton read their writings, understood what they planned to do, even while admiring them no end. Patton was everywhere, bursting with action whenever his duty was assigned. He usually wanted to visit the front lines before a battle, doing his own reconnaisance, sometimes relying on strong personal instincts like what he perceived as actual memories of nearby ancient battlefields. He believed he was a soldier reincarnated generation after generation, surprising many with his vast knowledge of places without ever having been there. Sure he was a voracious reader of classics and military history since he was a small boy, but he proposed it was more than simple imagination and memory of studies ... he claimed HE WAS THERE. When in battle he was EVERYWHERE. He was promoted quickly during wartime, even reaching full colonel commanding a brigade in France when he was 32 years old (October of 1918). So many reports like this:
"He was all over the place throughout the battle, jumping in and out of tanks, walking more than he rode, running more than he walked, now ahead of his tanks, coaxing them on, then behind them when they needed a push, like a frenzied schoolmaster trying frantically to keep in line a flock of unruly pupils on an outing." - from the blazing-hot bio of Georgie by Ladislas Farago