Good catch.

Hat Tip to E&P for catching this one and alerting folks to it:

From David Hulen at the always-valuable Alaska Politics blog at the Anchorage Daily News (www.adn.com) yesterday:

"Candidates spend a lot of time talking, and they all misspeak sometimes. But did anyone else notice this, from Wednesday's much-covered McCain-Palin Town Hall event in Grand Rapids,Mich., where Palin answered questions from people in the audience?

"McCain said this near the end of the clip below, as he's talking up Palin's foreign policy/national security credentials:

'I also know, if I might remind you, that she is commander of the Alaska National Guard. In fact, you may know that on Sept. 11 a large contingent of the Alaska Guard deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them. So I think she understands our national security challenges....'

"The ceremony Palin attended at Fort Wainwright last week didn't involve the Alaska National Guard. Palin's son is in the Army, and his unit - 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division - deployed to Iraq."

To some, confusing the Army National Guard and the Army would seem a small thing, but to someone with John McCain’s family history, this is a pretty big slip up. Culturally in the military, there’s a tremendous difference between Guard and regular Army, and John McCain must know that.