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2008-01-14 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_J._Austin

Posted by gorb 2008-01-14 06:57|| 2008-01-14 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 What's next for Ray Odierno?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-01-14 09:54|| 2008-01-14 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks in large part to Wm T. Sherman, the US produces a large number of very dangerous generals. And yet, most of them never get the chance to prove themselves in battle.

And irony of ironies, even the greatest of them, if they do get the chance to prove themselves and do prove themselves, must still pass on the role to a subordinate in a terribly short time.

Someone once remarked that a general is like a gymnast, except the career of the general is far shorter, and their chance for greatness less.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-14 10:16|| 2008-01-14 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 is this the same man that gave the very stirring commencement speech at Ft. Benning (sp) a couple years ago?

Posted by sinse 2008-01-14 10:23|| 2008-01-14 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 and if it's not could someone direct me too the video of that speech.

Posted by sinse 2008-01-14 10:25|| 2008-01-14 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks in large part to Wm T. Sherman,

Why do you say that?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-14 10:37|| 2008-01-14 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Wouldn't it be great if people like this were household names, instead of the Parisites and Lindsay Lohlifes?

Posted by charger 2008-01-14 10:48|| 2008-01-14 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks in large part to Wm T. Sherman,
Why do you say that?

I second the question. Shouldn't we be thanking West Point, not a general who had a bad habit of playing with matches in my home city?

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2008-01-14 11:47|| 2008-01-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks in large part to Wm T. Sherman,
Why do you say that?

My own explanation: Because without Sherman taking Atlanta a copperhead woukld have been elected and the United States would be no longer.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-01-14 12:11|| 2008-01-14 12:11|| Front Page Top

#10 W.T. Sherman founded the Command School, now known as the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Modeled in some ways after the German General Staff school, it is one of the primary intellectual assets of the United States for maintaining and improving the quality of its military commanders.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-14 12:13|| 2008-01-14 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks. I'd forgotten that. With his founding of LSU, Uncle Billy turned out to be quite the educator. Sort of Milton and Dwight Eisenhower all rolled into one with out the politician.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-14 12:24|| 2008-01-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Sinse, go to the FT Benning homepage and scroll down for the videos on the first page and the speach you are looking for is there.

I don't know LTG Austin, but if Bill Weber says he is good I'll follow him down range anytime.

Posted by TopMac 2008-01-14 12:37|| 2008-01-14 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 Big Pic of Austin (couple of MB)

Posted by KBK 2008-01-14 14:46|| 2008-01-14 14:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, a decorated paratrooper who next month takes over as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, packs an M4 rifle.

Smart man, they've learned to target anyone wearing only a pistol as an Officer.
Look like a grunt, shoots easier and better than a pistol anyway. (Pistols are for backup)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-14 16:14|| 2008-01-14 16:14|| Front Page Top

#15 W.T. Sherman founded the Command School, now known as the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Modeled in some ways after the German General Staff school, it is one of the primary intellectual assets of the United States for maintaining and improving the quality of its military commanders.

Thanks Anonymoose. Consider me educated.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2008-01-14 20:13|| 2008-01-14 20:13|| Front Page Top

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