Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] Cuba?
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sun Jan 4 19:11:22 2009
References: <20090104020812.ZRBE18445.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> <4DD8FFE3-B9B1-40F9-80CA-C0DD5F09ECBC@frozenlight.eu> <D7989D94-10EF-48D3-A3C3-515CAD6160C8@charter.net> <533B27A025014DD4B6B3D81E047CB7BE@precisionm50> <95D7C53D-67B1-460D-AB0B-5127889C04FA@charter.net> <20090104205504.B9234BB202@barracuda.rutabaga.org>

Yes, you're quite right. He went straight to serve as Chief of Staff  
of the United States Army, though still a promotion. For some reason  
I keep thinking he was at the Southern Command.
I gladly stand corrected.
sd


On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
>
>
> Second, I can find no reference to Westmoreland ever serving as the  
> Commander of Southern Command.  He returned from Viet-Nam to  
> immediately serve as the US Army Chief of Staff.  Or, at least, the  
> US Army Center for Military History seems to have no record of  
> Westmoreland ever serving as commander of Southern Command.  Was he  
> carried from Saigon to Miami in a black helicopter?  <he grins>
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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