Gen. David C. Jones, Ex-Joint Chiefs Chair, Dies

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

POTOMAC FALLS, Va. August 15, 2013 (AP)

Gen. David C. Jones, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Carter and Reagan administrations, has died at 92.

The general's son, David Curtis Jones, said Wednesday that his father died Saturday at a military retirement community in Potomac Falls, Va. He had Parkinson's disease.

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He helped set in motion a sweeping reorganization of the nation's military command, though his tenure was also marked by the failed 1980 mission to rescue 53 American hostages in Iran.

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[GP6971]

1. RIP

A real game changer in the military's turbulent era of the early 70's

[MADem]

2. Ninety two? Time flies.... nt