gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (M-16)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2003-04-04 08:20 pm

And now for a bit of grumping.

OK, I've dealt with the news media's inability to tell a brigade from a division, and misidentifying M-2 Bradley IFVs as tanks, but this one is really getting under my woodland-camo collar.

Jessica Lynch, the first American POW snatched from the arms of her captors since WWII, is not a Private.

She is a Private First Class. A PFC. E-3. Super Private.

This may seem a tiny quibble to some, but I know I was really happy when I got that rocker on my mosquito wings. She earned that rank, and deserves to be addressed correctly.

Absolutely!

[identity profile] murphymom.livejournal.com 2003-04-05 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
I remember Kirsten's dad getting his rocker during AIT at Ft. Ord. It was, in many ways, a bigger thing than when he made Sgt.