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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 482-05
May 16, 2005

General Officer Assignments

The Chief of Staff, Army announces the following general officer assignments:

 

Brigadier General (Promotable) Mark P. Hertling, Commanding General, 7th Army Training Command, Germany to Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany.

 

Brigadier General (Promotable) Robert M. Williams, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany to Commanding General, United States Army Armor Center and Fort Knox/Commandant, United States Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Ky.

 

Brigadier General Sheila R. Baxter, Assistant Surgeon General for Force Sustainment/Deputy Chief of Staff for Force Sustainment/Chief, United States Army Medical Service Corps, United States Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas to Commanding General, Western Regional Medical Command/Lead Agent, TRICARE Region 11/Chief, United States Army Medical Service Corps, Tacoma, Wash.

 

Brigadier General Marvin K. McNamara, Deputy Director for Force Structure, Integration, and Deployment, Missile Defense Agency, Washington, D.C. to Deputy Director, Missile Defense Agency, Washington, D.C.

 

Brigadier General Eric B. Schoomaker, Commanding General, Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center/Southeast Regional Medical Command/Chief, United States Army Medical Corps, Fort Gordon, Georgia to Commanding General, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick/Chief, United States Army Medical Corps, Fort Detrick, Md.

 

Colonel Donald M. Bradshaw, Commander, United States Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Benning, Ga. to Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center/Southeast Regional Medical Command, Fort Gordon, Ga.

 

Colonel Gerald E. Ferguson, Jr., Assistant Deputy Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, United States Army, Washington, D.C. to Director, Human Resources Policy Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, United States Army, Washington, D.C.

 

Colonel James K. Gilman, Commander, Walter Reed Health Care System, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. to Commander, Brooke Army Medical Center/Great Plains Regional Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

 

Colonel David A. Rubenstein, Commander, 30th Medical Brigade, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany to Assistant Surgeon General for Force Sustainment/Deputy Chief of Staff for Force Sustainment, United States Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

 

The assignments of the above-named colonels should not be construed as the Senate's consent of their promotion nominations, and there will be no action to frock or promote them until Senate confirmation.