Army remaining mum on why second deputy commander named for V Corps

Reason for Batiste's appointment to newly created post is unclear

Just another Bushy NQR (not quite right)...

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28816

The U.S. military still isn’t saying why a second deputy commander slot has been created at the Heidelberg-based V Corps, three days after the Pentagon announced that Maj. Gen. John Batiste would fill that position.

Batiste, the current 1st Infantry Division commander, is the second deputy commander appointed to V Corps in the past month. The corps, which oversees 42,000 of the 62,000 soldiers based in Europe, hosted a ceremony April 6 introducing Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Hahn as its new second-in-command.

But on Friday, the Pentagon announced Batiste had been appointed to the same slot. At the time, Pentagon officials referred further questions to the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart.

On Monday, a EUCOM spokeswoman referred further questions to U.S. Army Europe, which referred the inquiry to V Corps.

When contacted Monday, V Corps spokeswoman Hilde Patton said she had nothing further to add to comments made Saturday by another corps spokesman, Lt. Col. Brian McNerney.

McNerney on Saturday said that, “Maj. Gen. Batiste is obviously very well qualified. We look forward to him joining the corps team.”

Perhaps the Pentagon is adopting the old Soviet method of having one military commander and one political officer, who are equals.
With the exception that the political Commissar's decisions over ride those of the military commander.

sumptins up

when Bush is due to show up to Germany.

Unassing Germany And Deploying To The Middle East In Support Of The Neocon Insane World Domination Plans And To Punish Germany For Being Part Of Old Europe.

Somebody has to man those bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, and any other "stan" where we have bases now.

Rummy wants all of our forces in the old Soviet republics so we can get caught in the middle of religious and civil wars and be dragged into WWIII.