Just an observation. It’s kinda odd...someone who has zero journalism experience....gets picked up and approved to be embedded with the big general? Go back and look at day one, and she was some military intellectual who had a number of college degrees and a number of years in the military...nothing else. And she starts reporting for the New York Times?
This is like me getting picked by CNN to be a White House correspondent starting tomorrow morning, or you getting picked up to be a starting catcher for the New York Yankees.
There’s more to this whole story.
Although I can still throw a rope knee high to second, my knees would never be able to take it!
Bingo!!!! Much more to this story!
Charlotte Observer, Jan. 24, 2012:
So how did a Dilworth mom score this assignment?So it looks like they met in 2006, when she was a 34-year-old grad student and army officer, and it was he who decided to maintain contact with her.The answer begins at West Point. Broadwell, who grew up in North Dakota, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, also Petraeus's alma mater. She has worked in military intelligence, lived in multiple countries and specialized in counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and geopolitical analysis.
She met Petraeus in 2006 when he spoke at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was a graduate student. When she told him about her research interests, he handed her his card and offered his help. "He really cares about mentoring," she says.
Later, with his cooperation, she began a doctoral dissertation that included a case study of his leadership.