Posted on 10/26/2012 7:58:25 PM PDT by TigerClaws
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday.
Both appointments must be confirmed by the Senate.
Rodriguez is the commander of U.S. Army Forces Command and has served in a “variety of key leadership roles on the battlefield,” Panetta said.
He’s “a proven leader” who oversaw coalition and Afghan forces during the surge in Afghanistan, and “was the key architect of the successful campaign plan that we are now implementing,” Panetta said.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
I suppose that scumbag second-in-command is a friggin Obot.
ssve for history
Panetta is lying, just like everyone else in this administration. I don’t trust anything he says.
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@ Tigerclaws - Thank you for this post. Other’s — An interesting scenario.
Here is a bit from Gen Ham’s bio - Note he took command in Mar 2011, it should be a 3 year tour. He has 36 years in the Army. We’ll need to look out for an announcement of his retirement.
Carter F. Ham (born February 16, 1952) is a United States Army general, who serves as the second and current Commander, U.S. Africa Command. In that position, he has been in command of the initial 2011 military intervention in Libya.
Ham previously served as Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army from August 28, 2008 to March 8, 2011. Prior to that, he served as Director for Operations (J-3) at the Joint Staff from August 2007 to August 2008 and the Commanding General, U.S. 1st Infantry Division from August 2006 to August 2007. He assumed his current assignment with the Africa Command on March 8, 2011
Africom? That sounds racist. Can I say that in public?
“I think it will be pretty unremarkable across the military, and I think that is the way it should be,” said Ham, who helped lead a study of the military’s attitudes toward a change in the law.
Is is therefore hard to have a lot of sympathy for him as he was the willing collaborator of the Mahdi's regime and was rewarded with four shiny stars. Finally the Mahdi's boys manged to cross a line even this opportunist couldn't swallow and he found out just how expendable he was.
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Ah yes, a Silver Star for being on an airplane that turned back before reaching the target and not coming under fire. Politics is grand ain’t it? Phony sailor, but that was par for the course for political posers.
Routine change of command?
The date:
Ex-Commander in Afghanistan Eyed for Africa
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
Published: September 19, 2012
WASHINGTON — Gen. David M. Rodriguez, a former top Army commander in Afghanistan, has been chosen by the Pentagon to take charge of the military’s Africa Command, which in the wake of the Arab Spring has become one of the Defense Department’s most challenging theaters of operation.
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So a little over a week after the attack the routine change of command happens.
The article I posted was from October 18 making it a flashback. Likely should have posted it all as a vanity.
That’s a good find. Ham gave warnings. Knew of the threat.
Apparently Ham replaced a Gen Ward (African American; involved in a procurement scandal). Ham had won liberal friends based on a “common sense approach” to don’t ask dont tell. Politics.
Should be a three year tour. He’s about a year and a half in and a week after 9/11 he’s out the door. Doesn’t sound routine.
Very informative article, thanx.
Bump
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Gen. Ham is partly responsible for letting OPEN GAYS in our once fine Military??? LEt him HANG!
Hope to see Gen. Ham before congress soon.
Former Ambassador Bolton was on Greta last night. He said a Congressional fact finding group was told by Ham that “No one asked him to” intervene but he was prepared to do so.
That contradicts SofD Panetta’s comments yesterday that Ham was in on the decision!
“(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place,” Panetta told Pentagon reporters. “And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”
Panetta was referring to Gen. Carter Ham, the head of U.S. Africa Command, and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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