Two things I noticed last night on CNN

[nadinbrzezinski]

they were really interesting.

1.- Striker brigade is gonna be extended, so they interview the commanding officer of another brigade. Either CNN made a mistake and this is not the Commanding Officer, or Brigades are now under the command of Colonels and not Brigadier Generals. It was a telling moment, one that tells me, if they did not make a mistake, we've reached the obvious breaking point for the US military.

2.- Maguen David Adom Paramedics are now responding to calls on Haifa with side arms. Before anybody screams, this is highly legal and normal in a war zone (and the ICRC has truly never recognized the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross because of Muslim Sensibilities) that said, these are not M-16 rifles, or any other assualt weapon, but your average side arm that the army uses. This is contemplated in Geneva and when the crisis in Mexico started in way back when I actually asked for my crews to be armed this way. But what does this tell us? Not that CNN will ever go there... folks if they are going out armed, it only means one thing... there are infiltrators in the country and this is far more serious than even the news media is letting out. Imagine the propaganda value, yet nobody has even noticed this odd momnet of ambulance crews having at least one member armed with a side arm.

[LA lady]

1. sorry

When my husband was a full Colonel he was a Brigade Commander. He commanded a battalion as a Lt. Colonel and a COSCOM as a General.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. So the organization charts have changed

WOW, usually a brigade is three regiments, and usually under the command of a Brigadier General, and yes at times Light Colonels (the other term for a Lt. Colonel are in charge of a Regiment, but usually a battalion. Your hubby must be the exception to the rule... WOW!. Just looking at organizational charts for the US Military, this is not common.

Also COSCOM is an Artillery Unit... per the TO&E of the US Army

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/army/unit/toe/

Oh and the COSCOM per the TO&E is actually smaller personnel wise, than a brigade.

[LA lady]

6. sorry

Not exactly! A COSCOM is a Corps Support Command and his had 3 brigades in it. It was not artillery (although General Officers no longer represent a specific branch). He had been a Quartermaster Officer.

35 years in the Army, I have no problem arguing this one....:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I have no problem learning

It still struck me very odd that a full bird would be in charge of a brigade, since I am a wife of a Navy Chief retired and served in somebody else's force and a brigade usually is commanded by a brigadier.

:-)

[HereSince1628]

5. IIRC that's what I saw with brigades, too.

But there are probably variations and the militaries of different nations are certainly structured a bit differently. I never served in a place where their was a regimental organization between the battalions and the brigade, but I'll admit that mostly I served at "Stations" which were about battalion size in personnel...

[flyarm]

2. nADIN FOR THOSE OF US NOT MILITARY CAN YOU EXPLAIN

A LITTLE BIT MORE IN LAY TERMS??
thanks alot!

fly

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Sure

you have a high level manager who usually does manage production for one line of goods, managing the whole factory floor.