{"id":576716,"date":"2010-05-24T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85573"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T19:38:40","slug":"odierno-officially-nominated-for-joint-forces-command-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576716","title":{"rendered":"Odierno Officially Nominated for Joint Forces Command Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82052\/odierno-set-to-leave-iraq\">reported a few months ago<\/a> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=13555\">official<\/a>: Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. commander in Iraq, will head up the Joint Forces Command, pending (a certain) Senate confirmation. In the language of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfcom.mil\/newslink\/storyarchive\/2010\/pa052410a.html\">JFCOM&#8217;s press release<\/a>, Odierno will &#8220;oversee UFJFCOM&#8217;s roles in joint concept development and experimentation, joint capability development, joint training, and force provision and management as outlined in the Department of Defense&#8217;s Unified Command Plan.&#8221;<span id=\"more-85573\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, President Obama and Defense Secretary Gates <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85216\/lt-gen-austin-americas-last-iraq-war-commander\">nominated<\/a> Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin &#8212; like Odierno, a former corps commander in Iraq &#8212; to take over for Odierno as the Iraq war&#8217;s final commander. Odierno&#8217;s official move to Joint Forces Command now sets off a flurry of speculation over whether the current commander there, Marine Gen. James Mattis, will either <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82967\/gen-mattis-leaves-door-open-to-next-military-job\">retire or become the Marine Corps&#8217; next commandant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was reported a few months ago is now official: Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. commander in Iraq, will head up the Joint Forces Command, pending (a certain) Senate confirmation. In the language of JFCOM&#8217;s press release, Odierno will &#8220;oversee UFJFCOM&#8217;s roles in joint concept development and experimentation, joint capability development, joint training, and force [&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-576716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576716","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=576716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}