I was humiliated, yet my cock started to grow in my pants. Suddenly my manager appeared to my left and rested his hand on my shoulder. I attempted to ...over my growing hard-on, but realized that it couldn't have been visible even if I'd tried. I stood up and greeted him. He was at least half a foot taller than me so I still had to look up to make eye contact. "Sit down. Please, I insist," he said, patting my shoulder. "What can I do for ya' Jeremiah?" I asked, a little worried since we don't. " Anyway, me and Uncle Abe finished up our long talk, and I walked away knowin' I was now a man, with a pecker that could swell up fit to bust. I reckoned it wouldn't be too long 'fore I'd meet me a lady that liked me in that particular way and she'd be wantin' me to put my pecker up there inside her special place and take to sawin' on it. Later on that afternoon, I was thinkin' about ladies and peckers again, and next thing I knowed, my pecker was all swoll up again, only this time instead of. She hugged me and kissed my cheek as I grabbed my bag. I returned it, the kiss on the cheek, told her to be good, getting a nod as an answer, and went out to find my ride. All I could think of was those two women. One dying and the other looking at an uncertain future. One I could help. I wished I could help the other as well. I needed to get out of this mess and talk to my wife and my ... Mom. I needed to talk to my wife and my mom to see if they thought my sticking my nose in this was a. Major Fabio suggested that Horace work with Erica and me. I got another promotion. I'm now a Gunnery Sergeant. Colonel Yarnway doesn't pay any attention to that and keeps trying to give me orders, but Fabio made it clear before he was evacuated that our "transfer" was not a transfer of command. We came in to support Colonel Yarnway and coordinate with him, but we are not under his official command. The fact that I have been given the rank of Gunnery Sergeant has helped a lot since the only two.