He passed away 2 years ago this month.
On his birthday a year after he died, my step brother and I shared his favorite beer in his favorite college mugs, at his grave.
I'm sure he was with us.
Posted on 04/20/2005 10:20:47 AM PDT by kingattax
WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has recommended to President Bush that he nominate Marine Gen. Peter Pace to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a senior official said Wednesday.
Bush was expected to announce his choice soon, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Pace, 59, currently the Joint Chiefs vice chairman, would be the first Marine to hold the top job in the military. The Joint Chiefs chairman is the senior uniformed adviser to the president and the secretary of defense.
It is widely expected that Bush will name Navy Adm. Edmund Giambastiani, Jr., to succeed Pace as vice chairman. Giambastiani, 56, was Rumsfeld's senior military assistant before being named commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command in 2002.
The Pace and Giambastiani moves are among many changes in the works at senior levels of the Pentagon. The Navy's top officer, Adm. Vern Clark, is due to retire this summer, and the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. John Jumper, is due to depart this fall. The job of Air Force secretary is vacant, and the current Navy secretary, Gordon England, has been nominated to replace Paul Wolfowitz as deputy defense secretary. Rumsfeld's top policy aide, Douglas Feith, also is leaving.
If confirmed by the Senate, Pace would succeed Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, who is scheduled to retire late this summer after four years as chairman.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Teaneck, N.J., Pace graduated from the Naval Academy and got a master's degree in business administration from George Washington University.
After basic training in 1968, he was sent to Vietnam as a rifle platoon leader. He later served in Korea, as a commander for two years during the Somali intervention, in Japan and as head of the U.S. Southern Command.
He became vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2001, shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The Joint Chiefs chairman has the authority to transmit communications from the president and defense secretary to leaders of the nation's combatant commands, but does not exercise direct military command over any forces.
He passed away 2 years ago this month.
On his birthday a year after he died, my step brother and I shared his favorite beer in his favorite college mugs, at his grave.
I'm sure he was with us.
The reins AND the reign!
Equestrinally yours,
OOH RAH
amen brother
Hey PD, I think I remember you saying this was going to happen!
agreed, mud.....you tell em brother !!
Pace is a Catholic to boot.
It's time for a Marine. And certainly with the current mix of forces in Iraq the next chairman had to be either Army or Marine Corps. Good news.
Exactly---How in the world will this guy get confirmed when the dems could prolly find thousands of Marines that could swear that he raised his voice and yelled at them---
Re#42 My condolences. Sounds though that you and your brother sent him off well. Take care out there....
He has to have a certificate showing he completed 8 credit hours of PW-101 at a major women's college in the northeast or left coast.
without a doubt.....that will be included in a never-ending series of irrelevant and utterly ridiculous questions.
We did that in the Air Force, too.....and I think the Army might, as well....seems to be a fine military tradition that I can live with :^D
Oh, well, too bad--- I am sure that Pace would have been a great JC Chair otherwise....
Know I recognize him... I met him at a Mess night when I was at the Naval Academy. He was the guest speaker....
Know why Marines have T.G.I.F on the sides of their boots?
Toes Go In First
"After all these years not one Marine general has gotten this job?!"
No not one single Marine. Probably has to do with the fact the're not their own independent branch of the Armed Services...they are still part of the Department of The Navy...albeit the MENS Department! LOL!
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