Thank you Dave and others, it should have been obvious but I was a cavalryman<GGG> Thanks again. Peter Rogers Today's Topics: #1 Military Term ? [Peter Rogers <newhurst@compuserve.] Partridge "Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" 1967 printing Page 540 "mud-Major. An infantry major: Military (-1906); obsolete by 1915. Because, on parade, he was on foot" Dave Watkins