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Immediate Release

General Officer Assignments

The chief of staff, Army announced today the following assignments:

Maj. Gen. Lawrence W. Brock, U.S. Army Reserve, commander (Troop Program Unit), 335th Signal Command (Theater), East Point, Georgia, to commander (Troop Program Unit), 311th Signal Command (Theater), Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

Maj. Gen. William F. Duffy, U.S. Army Reserve, assistant deputy chief of staff, G-3, Mobilization and Reserve Affairs (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, District of Columbia, to assistant deputy chief of staff, G-2 (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, District of Columbia.

Maj. Gen. William K. Fuller, special assistant to the director of the Army staff, Washington, District of Columbia, to deputy chief of staff, Operations, International Security Assistance Force, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.

Maj. Gen. Sanford E. Holman, U.S. Army Reserve, commander (Troop Program Unit), 200th Military Police Command, Fort Meade, Maryland, to special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Washington, District of Columbia.

Maj. Gen. Thomas S. James Jr., director, Mission Command Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lyons, commanding general, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, to commanding general, U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command/Sustainment Center of Excellence and Fort Lee, Fort Lee, Virginia.

Maj. Gen. Michael R. Smith, U.S. Army Reserve, commander (Troop Program Unit), U.S. Army Reserve Support Command, First Army, Rock Island, Illinois; and deputy commanding general, Support (Troop Program Unit), First Army, Rock Island, Illinois, to assistant deputy chief of staff, G-3, Mobilization and Reserve Affairs (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, District of Columbia.

Maj. Gen. Simeon G. Trombitas, senior defense official/defense attaché-Mexico, U.S. Embassy, Mexico, to deputy commanding general (Operations), U.S. Army North/Fifth U.S. Army, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Willard M. Burleson III, deputy commanding general, 7th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to director, Mission Command Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Brig. Gen. Robert D. Carlson, U.S. Army Reserve, commander (Troop Program Unit), 372d Engineer Brigade, Fort Snelling, Minnesota, to deputy commanding general, Reserve Affairs (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, District of Columbia; and deputy commanding general, Transatlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Winchester, Virginia.

Brig. Gen. David P. Glaser, deputy director, Ministry of Interior Advisory Group, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, to chief of staff, U.S. Army Central/Third U.S. Army, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.

Brig. Gen. Janice M. Haigler, U.S. Army Reserve, deputy commander (Troop Program Unit), 311th Signal Command (Theater), Fort Shafter, Hawaii, to director, Cybersecurity (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Office of the Chief Information Officer, G-6, Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, District of Columbia.

Brig. Gen. Joseph P. Harrington, deputy commanding general (Support), 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas to deputy chief of staff for Operations, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, England.

Brig. Gen. James H. Mason, U.S. Army Reserve, deputy commander (
Troop Program Unit), 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), Camp Parks, California, to deputy commander (Troop Program Unit), 807th Mission Support Element, Camp Parks, California.

Brig. Gen. Michael C. O'Guinn, U.S. Army Reserve, deputy commander (Troop Program Unit), 807th Mission Support Element, Camp Parks, California, to commanding general (Troop Program Unit), Medical Readiness and Training Command, San Antonio, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Hugh C. Van Roosen II, U.S. Army Reserve, deputy commander (Troop Program Unit), U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to director, Institute for Military Support to Governance (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Whitlock, U.S. Army Reserve, deputy director, J-5, U.S. Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, to strategic planning and policy mobilization assistant (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.

Col. (Promotable) Francis M. Beaudette, executive officer to the commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, to deputy commander, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.

Col. (Promotable) Scott E. Brower, chief of staff, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to deputy chief, Operations, Office of the Defense Representative-Pakistan, Pakistan.

Col. (Promotable) Paul T. Calvert, commander, Operations Group, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, to deputy director for Operations, National Joint Operations Intelligence Center, Operations Team-1, J-3, Joint Staff, Washington, District of Columbia.

Col. (Promotable) Rodney D. Fogg, executive officer to the commanding general, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to commander, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), Fort Hood, Texas.

Col. (Promotable) Karen H. Gibson, executive officer to the deputy chief of staff, G-2, U.S. Army, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber, U.S. Army Cyber Command, Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Col. (Promotable) David C. Hill, director, Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, U.S. Army Engineer Division, Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.

Col. (Promotable) Michael D. Hoskin, chief, Operational Contract Support and Services Division, J-4, Joint Staff, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, U.S. Army Expeditionary Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

Col. (Promotable) Kenneth D. Hubbard, director, Operations and Support Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller), Washington, District of Columbia, to director for resource management, Installation Management Command, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

Col. (Promotable) James B. Jarrard, director of Operations, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to deputy commander, 7th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

Col. (Promotable) Richard C. Kim, executive officer to the commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/U.S. Forces Korea, Republic of Korea, to deputy commander, 2d Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army, Republic of Korea.

Col. (Promotable) William E. King IV, assistant chief of staff, G-3/5/7/9, Eighth U.S. Army, Republic of Korea, assistant deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7 (Readiness), U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Col. (Promotable) James J. Mingus, chief, Commander's Action Group, U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, to deputy director, Special Plans Working Group, J-5, U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

Col. (Promotable) Michael J. Tarsa, senior commander-Fort Carson, Fort Carson, Colorado, to deputy commander, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado.

Col. (Promotable) Frank W. Tate, chief, Aviation Division, Force Development Directorate, office of the deputy chief of staff, G-8, U.S. Army, Washington, District of Columbia, to deputy commander, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Col. (Promotable) R. Mark Toy, chief of staff, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, District of Columbia, to commander, U.S. Army Engineer Division, South Pacific, San Francisco, California.