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To: Dubya

A CPT is not the commander of a division - try a Major General (2 Stars).


2 posted on 05/06/2005 8:15:29 AM PDT by AZhardliner
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To: AZhardliner
A CPT is not the commander of a division - try a Major General (2 Stars).

Glad you caught that, too. How are we supposed to take a news article seriously, if the reporter can't even be bothered to get a simple, and glaringly wrong fact straight?

3 posted on 05/06/2005 8:20:42 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: AZhardliner

Well, Just between the two of you, I didn't learn a whole hell of a lot from the time I spent at Fort Benning pre-deploying to Iraq in 03.

Too many people who knew too little of what they spoke.

Pretty hard to fix without taking the veterans out of the combat zone.

RLTW


4 posted on 05/06/2005 8:22:46 AM PDT by military cop (military cop)
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To: AZhardliner

Yep, good catch!

Of all the Captains in a division, if one happens to be disgruntled, you can count on the AP to find him...and call him a "Commander" no less.


5 posted on 05/06/2005 8:26:15 AM PDT by Gator101
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To: AZhardliner
A CPT is not the commander of a division - try a Major General (2 Stars).

True but the correct answer is revealed in the next sentence.

Baugher's unit of 58 soldiers, the 194th Long-Range Surveillance Detachment of Johnston

So the Captain is the commander of a detachment, smaller than a Company in size, a specialized unit, and appropriate for a Captain to command.

In their usual sloppy reporting, they obvious left out the words "part of" modifying the word "division". Or better yet, they should have substituted "unit" for "division".

7 posted on 05/06/2005 8:41:45 AM PDT by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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