the other rumor going around about him is that he jumped ship in Morocco and teamed up with a disgruntled former bar owner and a Casablanca policeman that was on the lam. They reportedly left Morocco for Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria where the French officer made a living with his French credentials shaking down transients using his Moroccan credentials.
Rick the bar owner and Gerard both joined the French Foreign Legion.
Shortly afterwards Rick the former bar owner got news his old girlfriend had been dumped by her husband, Laslo. Rick promptly deserted and left Gerard stuck alone in the Legion.
Gerard was sent to an outlying fort that was besieged by Rifs. The ensuing battle found Gerard decorated with the Legion of Honor for shooting 38 consecutive Rifs off of the back of a camel.
However this recently has been reviewed and the Legion of Honor has been rescinded because the claim has been considered doubtful as nobody has ever figured out how anyone can get 38 people on the back of a camel.
After his enlistment expired he returned to the United States, moved to Alaska and commercial fished for several years before settling in Pennsylvania. There he took on a job running tank vessels moving gasoline and diesel fuel all over creation.
According to some guy in a bar, Gerard is still working at the trade even though he was eligible for retirement several years ago. It is said he keeps working just to be a pain in the ass and keep some young guy from getting ahead.
The bartender also reports that he is nearing mandatory retirement age and the neighborhood is bracing for him being home full time because he drinks copious amounts of bourbon and howls at the moon. He also enjoys supplying the neighborhood kids with BB guns, paint, slingshots and fireworks.
Currently he is sitting aboard a tank vessel with a long face because he has nowhere to go having been kicked out of every bar and brothel in the San Francisco Tenderloin district.
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