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A breathless exclusive from Editor and Publisher:
EXCLUSIVE: Soldier In New Friendly Fire Case Did Not Get Full TrainingAlong with the reporter's lack of knowledge of circumstances, there are numerous factual errors in this report.By Greg Mitchell
Published: April 04, 2007 6:20 PM ET updated 9:00 PM ET
WASHINGTON Two soldiers killed in Iraq in February may have died as a result of friendly fire, Army officials said Wednesday, not from enemy fire, as the press reported.
The military suspected friendly fire later in February but did not inform the dead soldiers' families of these new doubts.
One of the soldiers died just hours after arriving in Iraq -- and was one of those troops rushed to the country in the "surge" who did not receive full training.
Among them: Zeimer's Brigade wasn't part of the surge. This being the only reason E&P is reporting the story at all, it's probably significant.
Update: Surprise! Leftists believe what they're told.
Timesaver: To spare more hole digging in comments, here's the July 2006 DoD announcement:
1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Georgia has been placed in a prepare-to-deploy status for possible deployment later this year.They actually deployed to Iraq in early '07 - a bit later than planned.
This angle's already been tried, too:
Soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division had so little time between deployments to Iraq they had to cram more than a year's worth of training into four months.Some had only a few days to learn how to fire their new rifles before they deployed to Iraq -- for the third time -- last month.
