The Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bateman who wrote the Esquire article is who he purports to be, an active duty Army officer currently serving in the D.C. area. He is a prolific author, pundit, blog contributor, and general all around blowhard. He imagines himself a great intellectual. He is not a commander of anything and probably has not been since his days as a company commander many years ago. In other words, a staff weenie who served a tour in Iraq, probably on someone’s staff.
Colonel Robert Bateman, New York Guard, is a completely different person. He’s a wannabe who did not write the Esquire article and is not a commissioned officer in either the United States Army or the Army National Guard.
A simple Google search will turn up multiple mentions of both, including pictures. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that the two are not the same. But this simple step is apparently beyond the reach of the simpletons who keep making fools of themselves conflating the two on this forum. When one is busy proving himself to be an idiot, reading the articles, following the threads, and doing a few minutes of checking is not required.
1. Thanks for clarification. I was pointed here by FreedomPoster. Thanks FP.
2. Are you always this much of a prick online? Apparently we have both been around here a while, but I am sure I would have remembered someone this much of a douche. Maybe you were off you game today, didn't have your coffee or you're on the rag, but, wow. You really jumped right in and lit into the Freepers.
Way to stay classy.
Gee. I think I’ve just been insulted by a centurion!
I hate me, too.