{"id":59648,"date":"2015-05-05T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59648"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:14:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:14:36","slug":"dunford-to-replace-dempsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59648","title":{"rendered":"Dunford to replace Dempsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=49869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dunford_JF-266x333.jpg\" alt=\"Dunford_JF\" width=\"266\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-49869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dunford_JF-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dunford_JF-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last year, we announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49868\">General Joseph Dunford would replace General James Amos<\/a> as the Commandant of the Marine Corps. This year, he&#8217;s replacing Marty Dempsey as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Just like last year, General Dunford has an easy act to follow. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-taps-marine-general-lead-joint-chiefs-070321641--politics.html\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I know Joe, I trust him,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;He has already proven his ability to give me his unvarnished military advice based on his experience on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama made the announcement at the White House Tuesday. Dunford is expected to be easily confirmed by the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>His selection signals that even as the U.S. puts more focus on Asia and looks ahead to high-tech cyber and space threats, the administration still believes a strong ground force commander is needed to work through the ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and across the Middle East and Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we noted last year, Dunford cut his military teeth as an infantryman. From his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcu.usmc.mil\/historydivision\/Pages\/Who%27s%20Who\/D-F\/Dunford_JF.aspx\">official bio<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>General Dunford\u2019s assignments in the operating forces include Platoon and Company Commander, Co K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines; Company Commander, Co A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines; and Company Commander, Co L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. He served as the Operations, Plans, and Training Officer in 2d ANGLICO and the Regimental Executive Officer, 6th Marines. He commanded the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines and the 5th Marine Regiment. He served as the Chief of Staff, 1st Marine Division. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>General Dunford is a graduate of the U. S. Army Ranger School, Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, and the U. S. Army War College. He holds an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University and an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As opposed to Dempsey who has a Master&#8217;s degree in literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we announced that General Joseph Dunford would replace General James Amos as the Commandant &hellip; <a title=\"Dunford to replace Dempsey\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59648\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dunford to replace Dempsey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648","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=59648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}