People Who Shape Our World - March 29, 2008

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This entry was posted on 3/29/2008 11:47 PM and is filed under People Who Shape Our World.


By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff

Army Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey is the acting commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) as of March 28, 2008. Lt. Gen. Dempsey was nominated for promotion to the rank of four-star General February 5, 2008. He was confirmed by the Senate on March 13, 2008. He was formerly the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq commander, the coalition command responsible for recruiting, training, and equipping the Iraqi Security Forces. MNSTC-I is the parent heaquarters of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), the Coalition Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT), and the Coalition Air Force Training Team (CAFTT). Dempsey succeeded General David H. Petraeus who departed MNSTC-I to command the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth (Kan.), and who is now the commander of the Multinational Force Iraq.

Dempsey was commissioned a Second Lieutenant upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1974. He served as the Executive Officer of the 4th Bn 67th Armor (Bandits) in Friedberg Germany. He went on to be the Executive Officer of the 3rd Brigade 3rd Armored Division during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.commanded the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment as a Colonel.

In June 2003, then Brigadier General Dempsey assumed command of 1st Armored Division. He succeeded Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez who was promoted to command V Corps. Dempsey commanded 1st Armored Division until July 2005 including 13 months in Iraq from June 2003 to July 2004. While in Iraq, 1st Armored Division, in addition to its own brigades, had operational command over the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division; the command, called "Task Force Iron" in recognition of the Division's nickname, "Old Ironsides", was the largest division-level command in the history of the United States Army.

On March 27, 2007 Lt. General Martin Dempsey was promoted from commander of Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, to be reappointed as a lieutenant general and assigned as deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.

On February 5, 2008, Dempsey was nominated to head the Seventh United States Army/U.S. Army, Europe (USAREUR) and was nominated for promotion to four-star general upon Senate approval.

On March 11, 2008, Dempsey's Commander Admiral William J. Fallon requested his resignation and retiring from active service. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates accepted this as effective on March 31. Dempsey took over as CENTCOM commander on March 28, 2008.

On March 13, 2008, Lt. Gen. Dempsey was confirmed by the Senate as Commander, Seventh United States Army/U.S. Army, Europe and Acting Commander, U.S. Central Command.

On the Web:
http://www.centcom.mil,
http://www.mnf-iraq.com,
http://www.hqusareur.army.mil/.


 

 
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