Brigadier General Janis Karpinski
What is a Brigadier General? The U.S. Army provides a diagram of its organization at http://www.army.mil/organization/unitdiagram.html. A Brigadier General is a one-star general just above a colonel. If you click on the small box that says "Addtional Unit Types" and then click on "Military Police Brigade" you can read about the mission of B.G. Karpinski's brigade. Her brigade was from the Army Reserve. The Army, as one of the three military departments is composed of two distinct and equally important components: the active component and the reserve components. The reserve components are the United States Army Reserve and the Army National Guard. You can read more about the US Army Reserve at http://www4.army.mil/USAR/home/index.php.
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