[Intolerant in NJ]

Obama said the captain had served as the head of a rifle platoon, which should have had 39 members...been forty years since I left active duty, but I seem to remember back in those days a captain would have commanded a rifle company; a lieutenant would have led a platoon - it probably says a lot about this guy's smarts, effectiveness and professionalism if he is in fact a captain entrusted with no more than a platoon - Obama should check his sources.....

[tobyhill]

The story is starting to change because Obama and the unnamed Captain are getting called on the whole story. It’ll all be media forgotten by Monday.

[UCANSEE2]

“Obama said the captain had served as the head of a rifle platoon,”

Obama used the word ‘rifle’ because that was the issue of the story. (not enough rifles)

Obama used the word ‘platoon’ because it was the only military term for a ‘group of soldiers’ that he knew, and which he remembered from watching the movie PLATOON.

Obama also thinks that the soldiers were cold, and had to borrow FULL METAL JACKETS from the enemy to keep warm.