{"id":118398,"date":"2021-10-09T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118398"},"modified":"2021-10-09T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T01:56:09","slug":"general-ray-odierno-former-csa-dies-aged-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118398","title":{"rendered":"General Ray Odierno, former CSA, dies aged 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/odierno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/odierno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word came in that General Ray Odierno passed away yesterday from cancer at age 67. Odierno served as the 38th Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 2011 to 2015. He succeeded General Dempsey (when he was elevated to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) and was in turn succeeded by General Milley. At the end of his term, Odierno retired after 37 years of service.<\/p>\n<p>He began his Army career at West Point, being commissioned into the field artillery. He served multiple tours in Europe, was in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He was commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division when they deployed to Iraq for a yearlong deployment in the early days of the Iraq war. He&#8217;d then command multi-national forces in the country as the decade continued. Altogether he spent 50 months in Iraq during his career.<\/p>\n<p>Odierno is survived by his wife and high school sweetheart Linda, three children (including CPT Tony Odierno, an Army combat veteran), and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ausa.org\/news\/former-army-chief-staff-gen-raymond-odierno-dies?fbclid=IwAR08QDOmxfF0Fci8pSHt58H8L0cV-ccUdcxi0D65WkWLXzY_knYgOr1cRLg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AUSA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word came in that General Ray Odierno passed away yesterday from cancer at age 67. Odierno &hellip; <a title=\"General Ray Odierno, former CSA, dies aged 67\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118398\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Ray Odierno, former CSA, dies aged 67<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,83,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-breaking-news","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118400,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118398\/revisions\/118400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}