Posted by
Dawnsblood on Friday, January 19, 2007 6:11:43 PM
He is walking the line
in the third part of a 3 piece essay.
Part 2 and
part one are here. He covers everything from Saddam's execution to the IP. I want to quote a small piece of the essay about the Minnesota National Guard. A lot of people seem to think that the NG is a bunch of second class soldiers. SM Howard doesn't think so.
Any notion that a Marine Sergeant Major was giving the unit high praise
as a gesture of respect for an Army colleague was quickly disabused by
Mellinger when he added that Sergeant Major Howard, the top enlisted
Marine in Iraq, had also extended congratulations. Mellinger said he
was going to contact the CSM of the National Guard to make sure it was
known how highly regarded these soldiers are by the people who have
come to rely upon their effectiveness in one of the most dangerous
outposts in the world.