{"id":525750,"date":"2010-04-13T08:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82052"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:36:28","slug":"odierno-set-to-leave-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525750","title":{"rendered":"Odierno Set to Leave Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hYOkkpp9Y82bD09owquONBF89rRQD9F22F100\">reports<\/a> that Gen. Ray Odierno, who&#8217;s been commanding U.S. Forces-Iraq since mid-2008, when it was called Multinational Force-Iraq, will be succeeded by Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, who used to helm the corps-level command in that war. Odierno will go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfcom.mil\/\">Joint Forces Command<\/a>, the equivalent of a regional-level command (so he&#8217;ll be promoted.) That raises the question of whether the highly-regarded Marine Gen. James Mattis, the current JFCOM commander, will receive a new job &#8212; and there don&#8217;t appear to be many open that would constitute a promotion, like Marine Commandant &#8212; or retire from military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reports that Gen. Ray Odierno, who&#8217;s been commanding U.S. Forces-Iraq since mid-2008, when it was called Multinational Force-Iraq, will be succeeded by Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, who used to helm the corps-level command in that war. Odierno will go to the Joint Forces Command, the equivalent of a regional-level command (so he&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}