{"id":54319,"date":"2014-08-02T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54319"},"modified":"2014-08-01T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:35:55","slug":"german-brigadier-general-markus-laubenthal-to-be-chief-of-staff-at-usareur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54319","title":{"rendered":"German Brigadier General Markus Laubenthal to be Chief of Staff at USAREUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Markus-Laubenthal-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"Markus Laubenthal\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Markus-Laubenthal-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Markus-Laubenthal-324x333.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Markus-Laubenthal.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John sends us a link to the story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army\/in-historic-first-german-army-general-appointed-usareur-chief-of-staff-1.296324#\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which reports that US Army Europe will have a German, Brigadier General Markus Laubenthal as it&#8217;s chief of staff &#8211; the first German in that position since the Army came to Germany in 1945.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cThis is a bold and major step forward in USAREUR\u2019s commitment to operating in a multinational environment with our German allies,\u201d Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell Jr., USAREUR commander, said of Laubenthal\u2019s appointment. \u201cU.S. and German senior military leaders have been serving together in NATO\u2019s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan for years. Sustaining the shared capability from this experience will benefit both U.S. and German armies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laubenthal, 51, commanded the Bundeswehr\u2019s 12th Armored Brigade in Amberg before this assignment. In August of last year, he took over as chief of staff for ISAF Regional Command North in Afghanistan, where he helped oversee the drawdown of German troops from Kunduz and Mazar-e-Sharif, according to information on the German army website. Among other assignments, he served as military assistant to the deputy commander of operations and assistant chief of staff for operations for NATO\u2019s Kosovo force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is probably a good sign that Germany is going to participate more in it&#8217;s own defense. I enjoyed working with German soldiers, especially on our joint patrols along the East German border &#8211; they were lunatics because they could do stuff that we couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably a peace offering since we&#8217;ve been caught spying on their chancellor, Angela Merkel and we were caught spying on their government and the CIA station chief was expelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John sends us a link to the story in Stars &#038; Stripes which reports that US &hellip; <a title=\"German Brigadier General Markus Laubenthal to be Chief of Staff at USAREUR\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54319\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">German Brigadier General Markus Laubenthal to be Chief of Staff at USAREUR<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54319","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}