And now for a bit of grumping.

[gridlore]

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.

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Absolutely!

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

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.