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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGroundbreaking female General takes command of U.S. Army North
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/11/groundbreaking-female-general-takes-command-us-army-north.html?itok=a1RZmyvw
..."Richardson, 55, spoke briefly after taking command from Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, who is retiring after three years here. After a 15-round cannon salute, and with the 323rd Army Band performing songs from the divisions in which he served over a 37-year career, Buchanan and Richardson mounted horses and rode slowly, "trooping the line" of 200 soldiers standing at attention on Staff Post Field near the historic Quadrangle at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, where she'll work.
They then stood before their boss, Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, as Richardson accepted Army North's flag to symbolize the transfer of command. O'Shaughnessy leads U.S. Northern Command, or Northcom, created in 2002 to run the Pentagon homeland defense efforts and coordinate support of civil authorities.
Richardson, already the Army's first female combat arms general officer, became its first woman to command the Army component of a larger, multiservice unit.
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Tanuki
Jul 2019
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(35,454 posts)1. May She Be A Huge Success
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)3. Badass woman
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(10,274 posts)4. THIS is why America is great.
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