[spunkets]

"Lynch says her unit was sent into battle armed only with M-16s - no grenades or anti-tank weapons - and in lumbering trucks that could not keep up with the convoy barreling toward Baghdad."

If she did say this she's dense. Her mission was logistics, or maintenance, not combat.

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"She also disputed the Pentagon's early version of her capture by Iraqis, which suggested she had heroically defended herself - going down only after firing all her ammo."

The folks in the Pentagon hope, that since their soldiers are trained and encouraged to do so, they will fight. Their assumption wasn't any good in this case.

[lelio]

If she did say this she's dense. Her mission was logistics, or maintenance, not combat.

Then how did she get wrapped up in all of this then? Doesn't that point to more of a mistake by the military and not her own?

Not that I expect 0% accidents during a war, but there were some definate errors made in planning out a (relatively) untrained maintenance group driving around in a hostile area for so long.