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I spotted your comment here regarding spelling. It's actually one of those delightful little wrinkles in the English language that depends on where you learned to spell. The short and somewhat inaccurate version is that in America, "-ize" and "-ization" are the correct spellings, and in other parts of the world, "-ise" and "-isation" are preferred. Here at Wikipedia there's some disagreement over which version we should use, but the (again, short and somewhat inaccurate) rule is to use American spellings for America-related articles. The article in question is definitely America-related, because it's about the US army.
So, your comment was entirely correct, and thank you for pointing that out. You're perfectly welcome to make changes like that yourself, by the way. We call it "being bold", and there's a page about it called WP:BOLD, which you can read if you like. Don't worry about making mistakes or stepping on anyone's toes, because the page histories are recorded you can't actually break anything. If you find that when you make edits, other people change them back or leave brusque messages (which unfortunately sometimes happens), or you have any other questions, feel free to click here and leave me a message.