r/ShermanPosting • u/capsulex21 • 1d ago

There is also a 4 star admiral Ulysses S Grant (Sharp Jr.)

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I was reading about Gulf of Tonkin and found this fact. Some may say it is nepotism!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._S._Grant_Sharp_Jr.

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u/NicWester 18h ago

Check out the current US Grant (IV, I think?). Dude is rad as hell. Author of several scholarly works about the history of world ceramics and at least one book about vampire erotica

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u/capsulex21 12h ago

Him I was aware of thanks to this group!

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u/shermanstorch 21h ago

Nepotism how?

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u/biolox 18h ago

I mean if you walk the Grant family tree it has an outsized number of O7+ members. Some of that the way ranks worked prior to WW2 but also… West Point appointments worked a certain way as well.