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Thursday, 20 September 2012

AFRICOM: Gen. David "Rod" Rodriguez to take over command next year

Posted on 04:23 by Unknown

(PHOTO: Major General David M. Rodriguez speaking on an unspecified

date at the Washington Foreign Press Center while still the commander

of the 82nd Airborne Division, Coalition Joint Task Force - 82

Regional Command-East, Afghanistan)



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The New York Times reported Wednesday, September 19, that Gen. David

"Rod" Rodriguez "would take over early next year from Gen. Carter Ham

in what two American officials said was a routine change of command."



The reporting piece, written by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, says

that Africa "in the wake of the Arab Spring has become one of the

Defense Department's most challenging theaters of operation."



Gen. Rod is currently "head of the Army's Forces Command, which trains

and equips troops," with the responsibility of "training and equipping

265,000 active-duty soldiers, as well as training and overseeing the

readiness of 560,000 soldiers in the Army Reserve and Army National

Guard."



Still citing those unnamed officials, the report says:



"Because of the presidential election and the need to get the

necessary paperwork ready, General Rodriguez's expected nomination

would probably not go to the Senate for confirmation until the

postelection session."



Gen. Rod, a West Point graduate, "also has extensive combat

experience. He served two tours in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan,

including a stint in eastern Afghanistan as commander of the 82nd

Airborne Division and later as deputy commander of allied forces there

with responsibility for the day-to-day management of the war."



Among the fallouts of the Arab Spring, the report points to the US

Benghazi Consulate deadly attack, the Boko Haram terrorist group in

Nigeria, Al Qaeda affiliates in Mali and Somalia as well as "remnants

of the Lord's Resistance Army" (LRA).



(Source: www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/world/africa/ex-commander-in-afghanistan-in-line-for-top-africa-post.html?ref=world&_r=0)





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