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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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NEW YORK, NY — Military Working Dogs are more intelligent than second and first lieutenants, according to an article to be published next week in Army Times.
The article, titled "Who's Got the Smarts?" examines groups of soldiers from different ranks, military occupation specialties, and career branches, and then orders them by intelligence.
"We factored in several things," said Times managing editor Richard Brown, "such as test scores, writing samples, and difficulty of day-to-day tasks. Then we took the data and assigned each group a composite intelligence score."
According to the Times, the top three smartest groups in the Army are brain surgeons, CBRN officers, and JAG Corps attorneys.
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