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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 417-10
May 21, 2010

General Officer Assignments

                The Chief of Staff, Army announced today the following assignments:

                Brig. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl, deputy director for operations, National Military Command Center, J-3, The Joint Staff, Washington, D.C., to deputy commander, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Fort Drum, N.Y.

                Brig. Gen. William K. Fuller, deputy commanding general (operations), 82d Airborne Division/Combined Joint Task Force-76, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, to deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.

                Brig. Gen. Gustave F. Perna, director, J-4, U.S. Forces-Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq, to commanding general, Joint Munitions Lethality, Life Cycle Management Command/Joint Munitions Command, Rock Island, Ill.

                Brig. Gen. Lawarren V. Patterson, deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to commanding general, 7th Signal Command (Theater), Fort Gordon, Ga.

                Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Richardson, commander, Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Defense Logistics Agency, Columbus, Ohio, to director, J-4, U.S. Forces-Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq.