When he went into ASTP, it is 90% certain he severed all ties with his earlier unit. Coming out of ASTP, he -- and all others in similar circumstances -- would have been simply reassigned to wherever needed. Units shipping overseas in the near term would have had priority. If he did not join them as the left the Zone of the Interior, we could have been shipped over as an unassigned individual replacement, reported to a Replacement Depot ("repple-depple") in the UK, then been assigned to a Normandy-bound unit. -----Original Message----- From: worldwar2-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:INZP@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:12 PM To: WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WORLDWAR2] ASTP Question I'm hoping someone can answer the following question. When a person entered ASTP from the military did he remain in his original company? In other words, if someone was originally attached to the 298th Engineers, Company C was he still part of that company even though he was attending college? This group landed in Normandy on D-Day. Now even though the Carnegie Mellon program ended sometime around March 1, why would someone be transferred from the 298th to the 320th. Would it have something to do with needing more training? Would that be a plausible reason for not shipping out with the 298th? Thank you, Adrienne Inman ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WORLDWAR2-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message