Morals and the AEF Officer Corps

The Blois case files also disclose much about the AEF and the times in which it served. For example, the officers ordered to Blois for their personal moral failings illustrate the code of conduct that the AEF expected of its officers and the taboos or morays that it was unwilling to have transgressed.
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Sex, alcohol, black marketing supplies...not much has changed

In an article he contributed to Army History in 2015, he has much interesting to say about how the army dealt with those of the 82,000 officers under Pershing's command who did not cut the mustard and were reassigned, disciplined, or discharged. "To address the worst of these problems, Pershing established standing reclassification and efficiency boards as part of the Casual Officers’ Depot at Blois, France, in March 1918. The stigma of Blois was hard to shake. In fact, the reputation of Blois grew so fearsome that the terms 'blooeyed' or 'gone blooey' entered the American lexicon as slang for a failure or a colossal malfunction."

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. As always, a great share.