In his book Moment of Truth in Iraq, author Michale Yon suggests that we got a second chance in Iraq to correct a lot of errors of the first wave.
When General Patraeus was a colonel he was participating in a live-fire exercise when a young soldier Terrence Jones tripped and accidentally fired his weapon, hitting Patraeus in the chest and “taking out a piece of his back on the way out.” ” There is no such thing in the army as an ‘accidental discharge’. Unplanned bullet launches are called ‘negligent discharges’.”
Normally the army is not forgiving of such incidents, but Patraeus gave Jones a second chance and sent him to ranger school.
Our general seems to know how to make the most of second chances.
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