Army orders Detroit Lions draft pick Caleb Campbell to active duty

Depending on what branch he was assigned to, he could have up to two years before he's ready to serve (see: full, three_bags). Most males from West Point are assigned to what we used to call combat arms branches: aviation, infantry, artillery, engineers, armor. Those are some fairly lengthy training cycles. I have a friend who graduated with me last May (and was assigned to the armor branch) and he just got to Afghanistan about a month ago.

 

Um, Hondo.... I knew that. The polls which show Obama is doing well appears to have erased your sense of humor.

 

So, wait. According to that story, they're pulling him out of Lions training camp so he can be ... an assistant football coach?

You can't make up something that good.

 

An embarrassing gaffe on the CNN.com story about this today. See if you can spot it here in the second graf:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/25/academy.athletes/index.html

 

First round, seventh round, what's the difference?

 

First, seventh ... who cares?

It's all the same, right?

EDIT: Dammit, Chester!

 

Ah, who cares about accuracy, it's only on the internets. It's not like it's in print. It can always be fixed.

 

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story [/blue font]

 

What Good For The Goose Dept.: The Army catches up with the State College Spikes of the New York-Penn League, sending two of their players back into active duty. One of them was the team's leading hitter.

 

Looking at the Spikes' record, you would think they couldn't get any worse. Well, now they can.

 

You mean the polls that show McCain catching up ... which is pretty much all of them?

 

I don't care what the kid signed, if the Army tells the guy he can pursue a pro career and then switches up on him less than six months later, thats just messed up. Oh, but I'm sure they just had to have them. I swear, if I even thought I had a one percent chance to make it to the NFL I wouldn't even open a letter from a military academy. But hey, once you sign up, you're pretty much just another pawn in the military's chess match anyway, right?