Questions about these codes of my Father's Military Service?

Unit: 88th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron

Part of: 8th Armored Divison Army of The United States

Part of 15th, 3rd and 9th Armies at different times.

De Mob means demobilized. The term used after VJ Day when all the guys being held as replacements for the invasion of Japan yelled Yahoo a 2nd time....my Dad had been bounced from the 80th ID and was in the 14th Armored by then.

I have my Dads original Discharge/Separation papers. He had them filed with the county recorder when he got home. Perhaps your Dad did the same.....they make a strong suggestion to do that even now. Even if you find it it will have little beyond dates and Theater, medals earned and place of discharge.

I know how frustrating this is. My father's records, 30 year's worth, have disappeared. When I contacted the Archives they asked me to send them copies of anything I had!

The 88th Cav(alry) Troop was a reconnaissance unit of the 88th Infantry. They were "cavalry" in that they were mechanized (had vehicles) instead of being on foot, and were used like the old-fashioned cavalry - to scout ahead, screen against enemy reconnaissance, and harass the enemy with hit-and-run tactics.

I don't know what the rest stands for, but I suspect that at some point he got into some minor trouble. It looks like they took some of his pay through an Article 15 - which is "non-judicial" punishment. When you get into trouble, but either not serious enough or because you are basically a good soldier that they don't want to court martial you, you get an Article 15. Punishment can vary from extra duty to losing stripes, and can include losing part of your pay for a month or so.

The reality that you've got handed each the A.I.B. and Merchant Navy resolution approach they each consider you're the variety of character they desire of their ranks and you are lucky to have the alternative. If the perceived again-stabbing and snobbery of the wardroom is the one factor that's preventing you from becoming a member of the Royal Navy you then might be denying your self a profession simplest to discover the identical again-stabbing and snobbery in other places. I have no longer spent any time with anybody within the Merchant Navy however from the little time I've spent running along the Royal Navy I have learned that the surroundings on board a boat relies on the send's captain. Some have an excessively snobby perspective at the same time others do not tolerate such matters and I suspect that the identical applies to the ships of the Merchant Navy. On the opposite hand in case your alternative is inspired via a precise option for the Merchant Navy then I might truthfully recall it extra cowardly to cave into peer strain as a substitute than to do what you quite desire to and consider there's not anything dishonourable approximately being precise to your self. So I might say make the alternative for your self, do what you desire to it is your existence, and in case your peers quite are your peers they're going to fully grasp and aid your selection. If they do not then they're being immature no longer you. I have served my nation for nealy 25 years.

Try the below site and see if you can find anything;

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/fielded-search.jsp?dt=...

88 CAV RENSQMEC7 was his unit. Is he alive? can he tell you anything?? maybe a local VFW.