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Immediate Release

General Officer Assignments

The chief of staff, Army announced today the following assignments:

Maj. Gen. Todd B. McCaffrey, chief of staff, U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, to deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

Brig. Gen. Carl A. Alex, deputy commanding general (support), 10th Mountain Division (Light), Fort Drum, New York, to assistant deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7 (readiness), U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Brig. Gen. Stephen E. Farmen, commanding general, 19th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), Eighth U.S. Army, Republic of Korea, to commanding general, Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command and Joint Munitions Command, and deputy commanding general, Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

Brig. Gen. Bryan P. Fenton, deputy commanding general (operations), 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to assistant chief of staff, G-3, U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

Brig. Gen. Thomas C. Graves, deputy commanding general (operations), 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, to deputy commanding general (operations), Eighth U.S. Army, Republic of Korea.

Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, deputy commandant, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; and deputy commanding general, leader development and education, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to chief of staff, U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

Brig. Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher, deputy commanding general (support), 2d Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army, Republic of Korea, to deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Brig. Gen. Patrick E. Matlock, deputy director for operations, National Joint Operations Intelligence Center, Operations Team Four, J-3, Joint Staff, Washington, District of Columbia, to deputy commanding general, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Brig. Gen. Daniel G. Mitchell, deputy commanding general (support), 1st Theater Sustainment Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to deputy commanding general for support, Installation Management Command, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.

Brig. Gen. Robert J. Ulses, assistant chief of staff, G-3, U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, to deputy commanding general, 7th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.