Then pray explain why the previous Chairmen ^ have all seved longer?
Subject to paragraph (3), an officer serving as Chairman may be reappointed in the same manner for two additional terms. However, in time of war there is no limit on the number of re appointments.
Most Chairmen serve two 2-year terms, for a total of four years, but they have to be renominated and get confirmed in the Senate at the end of the first term before starting the second. That’s what’s going on here with Pace. He and the Vice Chair would have had to go through the Levin-McCain meat grinder before starting his second term, IF he somehow managed to get re-confirmed by the ‘Rat controlled Senate.