"The other day we staged a mounted review for the division which was quite impressive and to my mind a great tribute to the officers and men composing it, as without a rehearsal they did an excellent job. We now have some three thousand draftees...They are a surprisingly good lot of men and will be a great credit to us. I am apparently in permanent command, although newspapers to the contrary notwithstanding, I am not a major general, but that will probably come in time." - George S. Patton to General Pershing
He also send a letter to General Harbord on the tanks he is receiving.
"Things are going very well with us here, and we are getting tanks faster than we could reasonably hope. We have just received 67 mediums...although not all of the latest type of vehicle. Still a tank is a tank, and it makes no difference so far as the enemy is concerned which type he gets killed by." - George S. Patton to Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord
That strikes me as a dumb remark. If the enemy's tank is superior to Patton's tank it might not be the enemy who is killed. I imagine the tankers themselves were more desireous of having the current year's model.