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From: Mark R. Lewis
Date: 18 Jul 2001
Time: 17:41:44
I have no idea what really happened here, and I know the press often does not paint the true picture. Nevertheless, it sounds awfully familiar, and I am disturbed by three things that I think are indicative of an Army culture that needs some help.
1. A Colonel appears to be leading a convoy of 81 soldiers and 42 vehicles. Could this be true? If so, what is the Company Commander doing, and who is leading the other 2919 or so soldiers in that brigade during these all these harrowing "hours?"
2. A Brigadier General appears to have directed that convoy via a UAV. Is that true? I could buy that it was just to pass along good intel, but if so, why does that take a General? It sounds like eyes in the sky ala command choppers in Vietnam. 3. "Then the Americans waited for hours as British and other foreign troops inspected the road for mines and other threats."
Mark Lewis
Ref:The New York Times, July 17, 2001, "For G.I.'s, A Balkan Road Of Neither War Nor Peace," By Michael R. Gordon, http://www.nytimes.com