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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 569-05
June 08, 2005

General Officer Assignments

Major General Lloyd J. Austin III, Commanding General, 10th Mountain Division (Light) and Fort Drum, Fort Drum, New York to Chief of Staff, United States Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

Major General Benjamin C. Freakley, Commanding General, United States Army Infantry Center/Commandant, United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia to Commanding General, 10th Mountain Division (Light) and Fort Drum, Fort Drum, New York.

Major General Walter Wojdakowski, Special Assistant to the Commanding General, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany to Commanding General, United States Army Infantry Center/Commandant, United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Brigadier General (Promotable) Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., Assistant Division Commander (Support), 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii to Commanding General, United States Army Alaska/Deputy Commander, United States Alaskan Command, Fort Richardson, Alaska.

Brigadier General James T. Hirai, Commanding General, United States Army Alaska/Deputy Commander, United States Alaskan Command, Fort Richardson, Alaska to Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.