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Some things you can just take for granted, right? Like when the San Francisco Chronicle does a profile about a California academician who gives up her position as a college vice president over the war in Iraq - you just know what's coming. You probably don't even want to bother reading about it. But you're going to.
The transformation of Jannett Jackson, the outgoing vice president of the College of Alameda, will be complete in a little more than two weeks. She will be back in uniform pursuing her "other life" -- as a commanding officer in the California Army National Guard.It will be her second trip to Iraq.On June 5, Col. Jackson is scheduled to ship out to Iraq.
She will command a mechanized support division attached to the 40th Infantry Division of the California National Guard. She was officially promoted Wednesday in a ceremony at Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County.
Jackson is now the highest-ranking woman in the state's Army National Guard, and its only female brigade commander.
"I was there in 1990 doing the same thing, but at the company level," Jackson said. "We were part of the great end-around with the 101st," she said, referring to the rapid armored advance that swept west and then north into Iraq, completely overwhelming the Iraqi army.The full story is a great one. Read it here.