General Officer Assignments

 July 22, 2021

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The chief of staff of the Army announces the following general officer assignments:

Lt. Gen. Antonio A. Aguto Jr. to commanding general, First U.S. Army, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. He most recently served as commanding general, 3d Infantry Division and Fort Stewart, Fort Stewart, Georgia.

Lt. Gen. Stuart W. Risch to judge advocate general, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C. He most recently served as deputy judge advocate general, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.

Lt. Gen. Edwin J. Deedrick Jr. to U.S. Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee, Belgium. He most recently served as commander, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Operation Freedom's Sentinel, Afghanistan.

Maj. Gen. (Promotable) Jonathan P. Braga, deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Pacific Command, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, to commanding general, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Maj. Gen. (Promotable) Paul A. Chamberlain, director for Army Budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, D.C., to military deputy for Budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Washington, D.C.

Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Berger III to deputy judge advocate general, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C. He most recently served as commanding general/commandant, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Maj. Gen. John W. Brennan Jr., commanding general, 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to commander, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation Inherent Resolve, Iraq.

Maj. Gen. Jeffery D. Broadwater, commanding general, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, to deputy commanding general, V Corps, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Maj. Gen. Brian J. Mennes to deputy commanding general, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He most recently served as commanding general, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and Fort Drum, Fort Drum, New York.

Maj. Gen. John B. Richardson IV, deputy commanding general, III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas, to commanding general, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Eugene D. Cox to command surgeon, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He most recently served as commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Brig. Gen. Jack M. Davis, commanding general, Regional Health Command-Pacific; market manager, Puget Sound Enhanced Multi-Service Market; and chief of the Army Nurse Corps, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, to director, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; deputy director, National Capital Region Market, Defense Health Agency; and chief of the Army Nurse Corps, Bethesda, Maryland.

Brig. Gen. Marcus S. Evans to chief of staff, U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. He most recently served as commander, Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan/Headquarters NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan, Operation Freedom's Sentinel, Afghanistan.

Brig. Gen. Alison C. Martin to commanding general; and commandant, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia. She most recently served as executive officer to the judge advocate general, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.

Brig. Gen. David E. Mendelson, staff judge advocate, III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas, to assistant judge advocate general for military law and operations, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.

Brig. Gen. Clinton K. Murray to commanding general, Brooke Army Medical Center; and deputy market manager, San Antonio Military Health System, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. He most recently served as commander, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Brig. Gen. George R. Smawley, staff judge advocate, U.S. Cyber Command, Fort Meade, Maryland, to commanding general, U.S. Army Legal Services Agency; and chief judge, U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Brig. Gen. Brett G. Sylvia, deputy commanding general (Maneuver), 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, to vice director, J-5, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Army Reserve

Maj. Gen. Rodney L. Faulk, commander (Troop Program Unit), U.S. Army Support Command - First Army and deputy commanding general, First Army, Rock Island, Illinois, to commanding general (Troop Program Unit), 99th Readiness Division, Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Maj. Gen. Robert D. Harter, assistant deputy commanding general for Reserve Office (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), U.S. Army Material Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, to deputy chief of Army Reserve, (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Office of the Chief of Army Reserve, Washington, D.C.

Brig. Gen. Joseph D’costa, deputy commander - support (Troop Program Unit), 412th Engineer Command, Vicksburg, Mississippi, to deputy commanding general - support (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Eighth Army, Korea.

Brig. Gen. Dianne M. Del Rosso, deputy commanding general (Forward) (Troop Program Unit), 1st Theater Sustainment Command; and commander, 311th Sustain Command (Expeditionary), Operation Spartan Shield, Kuwait, to assistant deputy chief of staff, Logistics (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.

Brig. Gen. Joseph Dziezynski, deputy commanding general (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to commanding general (Troop Program Unit), Military Intelligence Readiness Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Brig. Gen. Cheryn L. Fasano, deputy commander (Troop Program Unit), 377th Theater Sustainment Command, Belle Chasse, Louisiana, to mobilization assistant to the commander and commander (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Joint Transportation Reserve Unit, U.S. Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Brig. Gen. Tony L. Wright, commander (Troop Program Unit), 98th Training Division (Initial Entry Training), Fort Benning, Georgia, to deputy chief of staff, strategy, plans and policy, (Individual Mobilization Augmentee), Supreme Allied Command Transformation, Norfolk, Virginia.