Okay, I figured out my problem.
When you run "yo meanjs" the first question it asks is "What would you like to call your application?"
Whatever answer you give, creating a module of the same name will cause issues.
Since I called the application "copywars" I was getting errors whenever I made a module called "copywar" or "copywars" I am able to get around this by changing my application name or changing the module name.