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Revision as of 18:58, 8 January 2020
Mark Milley | |
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 Milley in 2019 | |
| Born | June 18, 1958 Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1980–present |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chief of Staff of the United States Army United States Army Forces Command III Corps International Security Assistance Force Joint Command 10th Mountain Division 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light) |
| Battles / wars | Operation Uphold Democracy Operation Uphold Democracy Operation Joint Endeavor Iraq War War in Afghanistan |
| Awards | Defense Distinguished Service Medal (2) Army Distinguished Service Medal (4) Defense Superior Service Medal (3) Legion of Merit (3) Bronze Star Medal (4) |
Mark Alexander Milley (born June 18, 1958) is a United States Army general and the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the United States military. He previously served as 39th Chief of Staff of the Army.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Winchester, Massachusetts, Milley attended the Belmont Hill School.[2] He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics from Princeton University, a Master of Arts degree in international relations from Columbia University, and another Master of Arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the United States Naval War College.[3] He is also a graduate of the MIT Center for International Studies Seminar XXI National Security Studies Program.[4]
Military career
Although Milley earned his commission as an Armor officer through Princeton's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in 1980, he has spent most of his career in Infantry assignments.[5]
Milley has served in the 82nd Airborne Division, the 5th Special Forces Group,[6] the 7th Infantry Division, the 2nd Infantry Division, the Joint Readiness Training Center, the 25th Infantry Division, Operations Staff of the Joint Staff, and as a Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon.[7] In November 2000, he participated in the 2nd Annual Army-Navy Ice Hockey Game in Honolulu, Hawaii, a charity event benefiting youth ice hockey players in the area.[8]
General Milley has had multiple command and staff positions in eight divisions and Special Forces throughout the last 39 years to include command of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division; Milley commanded the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light) from December 2003 to July 2005, served as Deputy Commanding General (Operations), 101st Airborne Division from July 2007 to April 2008, and was Commander of the 10th Mountain Division from November 2011 to December 2012.[9] He then served as the Commanding General of III Corps, based at Fort Hood, Texas, from 2012 to 2014,[10] and as the Commanding General of United States Army Forces Command, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 2014 to 2015. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the United States Army on August 14, 2015.[11]
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Iraq War study
In 2018, Milley was involved in deciding whether the Army would publish a controversial study on the Iraq War. Milley reportedly decided that he wanted to read the two-volume, 1,300-page, 500,000-word study before making a decision. Milley also directed that an external panel of scholars review the work. After the panel returned glowing reviews on the study, including one that described the study as "the gold standard in official history", Milley continued to delay publication so he could review the study further.
In September 2018, Secretary of the Army Mark Esper and other Army officials decided to distance themselves from the study by casting the study "as an independent" work of the authors, instead of being described as a project by the Chief of Staff of the Army's Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group." When confronted by a journalist from the Wall Street Journal in October 2018, Milley reversed these decisions, ordering the study to be published officially, and with a foreword that he would write. He declared the team that wrote the study "did a damn good job," that the study itself was "a solid work," and noted that he aimed to publish the study by the holidays (2018).[12]
Within days of this revelation, two members of Congress who sit on the House Armed Services Committee (Reps. Jackie Speier, D-California, and Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona) sent a letter to Army leaders expressing their anger over the delay. In a press release accompanying the letter to Milley and Esper, Rep. Spier said, "This is simply the Army being unwilling to publicly air its mistakes. Our military, Congress, and the American people deserve nothing less than total transparency on the lessons the Army has identified so that we may use those lessons to avoid costly, and too often deadly, mistakes of the past."[13] The study was published January 17, 2019.[14]
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
On December 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Milley to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[15][16] On July 25, 2019, the United States Senate confirmed Milley's nomination by a vote of 89–1,[17][18] and he was sworn in on September 30, 2019.[19][20][21][22]
After attending 75th anniversary commemorations of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and Luxembourg on December 16, 2019, Milley met with the Russian military chief of staff Valery Gerasimov in Bern, Switzerland, on December 18. This continued a series of regular meetings between the American and Russian military chiefs reestablished by Milley's predecessor Joseph Dunford in 2017 to ensure open communication and avoid conflict, especially in Syria.[23] The face-to-face meeting was arranged with the assistance of the incoming Swiss military chief Thomas Süssli.[24]
Operational deployments
Milley has had multiple operational deployments including:
- Multinational Force and Observers, Sinai, Egypt
- Operation Just Cause, Panama
- Operation Uphold Democracy, Haiti
- Operation Joint Endeavor, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq
- Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan
Awards and decorations
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References
- ^ "Chief of Staff of the Army | General Mark A. Milley". United States Army. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
- ^ Berkowitz, Bram (August 27, 2015). "Winchester Native Mark A. Milley Becomes U.S. Army Chief of Staff". Winchester Star. Winchester, MA.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Art, Robert (September 1, 2015). "From the Director: September, 2015". MIT Seminar XXI. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- ^ Graham-Ashley, Heather (December 20, 2012). "III Corps' new commander views road ahead, training, support". III Corps and Fort Hood Public Affairs. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
- ^ Gal Perl Finkel, The IDF that Eisenkot leaves behind is ready, The Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2019.
- ^ U.S. Army Forces Command, Commanding General Archived 2015-09-06 at the Wayback Machine, www.army.mil/forscom, dated August 15, 2014, last accessed August 15, 2015
- ^ "Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports". archives.starbulletin.com.
- ^ Block, Gordon (December 4, 2012). "Fort Drum welcomes new 10th Mountain Division commander at ceremony". Watertown Daily Times. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
- ^ Michelle Tan, Staff writer (May 13, 2015). "Gen. Mark Milley picked for Army chief of staff". Army Times.
- ^ Michelle Tan, Staff writer (August 14, 2015). "Milley takes over as new chief of staff; Odierno retires". Army Times.
- ^ Gordon, Michael R. (October 22, 2018). "The Army Stymied Its Own Study of the Iraq War" – via www.wsj.com.
- ^ South, Todd (October 25, 2018). "Army's detailed Iraq war study remains unpublished years after completion". Army Times.
- ^ "The U.S. Army in the Iraq War". January 17, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Donald Trump makes it official: Gen. Mark Milley to chair Joint Chiefs of Staff". USA Today. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ^ Bowman, Tom (December 8, 2019). "Meet Mark Milley, Trump's Pick For Joint Chiefs Chairman". NPR. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ On the Nomination (Confirmation: General Mark A. Milley to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), United States Senate, July 25, 2019
- ^ Cooper, Helene (September 29, 2019). "How Mark Milley, a General Who Mixes Bluntness and Banter, Became Trump's Top Military Adviser". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Macias, Amanda (September 30, 2019). "Trump oversees swearing-in of Gen. Mark Milley as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff". CNBC. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Babb, Carla (September 30, 2019). "New Top US Military Officer Takes Helm Amid Iran Tensions, Afghan Violence". Voice of America. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Baldor, Lolita C. (September 30, 2019). "Gen. Milley faces challenges as next Joint Chiefs chairman". Associated Press. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Golby, Jim (October 1, 2019). "President Trump tapped Gen. Mark Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here are 3 things to know". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
- ^ Detsch, Jack (December 18, 2019). "Intel: Top US and Russian generals link up to talk Syria". Al-Monitor. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
- ^ Hashmi, Faizan (December 19, 2019). "Russian General Staff Chief, Top Swiss Army Commander Meet In Bern - Defense Ministry". UrduPoint Network. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
- ^ "U.S. Embassy France". Twitter.com. November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
External links
This article incorporates public domain material from Lieutenant General Mark A. Milley. United States Army.- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- American army personnel of the Iraq War
- Belmont Hill School alumni
- School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni
- Members of the United States Army Special Forces
- Military personnel from Massachusetts
- Naval War College alumni
- People from Winchester, Massachusetts
- Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey players
- Princeton University alumni
- Recipients of the Legion of Merit
- United States Army generals
- Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff