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September 29th 03, 01:49 AM
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"Jake Donovan" wrote in message news:tVJdb.22376$AH4.14139@lakeread06... SNIP SNIP SNIP SNIP! PS - But for the life of me, I could never understand the AF / Army Lt Gen out ranking a Major Gen. LOL ( and before someone tries to explain it to me, I KNOW that a Lt Gen is 3 stars and a Major Gen is 2 stars. As it is the same in the Marines) Many, many years ago I heard an explanation for this. As best I recall they said Lt Gen was a rank in the regular army. The mounted (calvary) army decided to be different and call their general of the same pay grade a MajGen. Of course it wasn't long before they were trying to convince everyone that MajGen out ranked Lt.Gen. The regular army didn't buy it. Your fables may vary. Red 
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