that is nonsens, because all high ranking flag officers have started in small, so did Sanchez. Abu Ghraib gave his career a political killing-point, of course.
wikpedia (English) has a short biography of him, however, the far more detailed biography, listing all his assignments and merits, is to be found on the
German Wikipedia site:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_S._S%C3%A1nchez
Sounds like a regular career from platoon leader to division commander, with some representative assignments of no small reputations in between.
English Wikipedia quoted him with a japanese proverb:
"Action without vision is a nightmare." I like that.
Do I have special interst in or sympathy for the man? No. I just don't like it that somebody is getting a bashing and minimizing of his career just because he is of the "wrong" opinion.