MG William Mayville, commanderof 1st Infantry Division, took commandof the 14 provinces that make up Re-gional Command-East (RC-E) in April.As commander of RC-E, MG Mayvillewill lead five U.S. combat brigades, oneU.S. combat aviation brigade and bri-gades of two NATO partner nations. Despite the setbacks to coalition ef-

forts in Afghanistan and Afghan pres-ident Hamid Karzai’s demands forthe withdrawal of foreign forces fromrural areas and an end to night raids,MG Mayville said in an interview withAssociated Press (AP) that he believesthe United States and its partners willstick to the current strategy in Af-ghanistan. That plan calls for the re-duction of U.S. forces from the currentlevel of some 90,000 to 68,000 by theend of this summer and the transitionof security to Afghan forces by theend of 2014. A NATO summit in Chi-cago later this month will address thesecurity relationship with Afghanis-tan beyond that time.

Part of the U.S. drawdown will beaccomplished by transferring more ofthe security responsibilities to Afghanforces particularly in the south andshifting focus to the eastern part of thecountry, which MG Mayville said “isthe most complex area of all the battlespaces.” Insurgent attacks increasedlast year in that mostly mountainousregion that includes 450 miles of theAfghanistan-Pakistan border. MG Mayville said he has been en-

couraged by the growing numbers ofcompetent and committed Afghan mil-itary leaders, but that progress must beconnected “to the efforts to build a vi-able Afghan government at the local,provincial and national level[s].”As MG Mayville and approximately

700 1st Infantry Division staff memberstook over RC-E, other soldiers whowill help transfer the security missionto Afghan forces also deployed. Theywere the first small teams of officers,usually from the same unit, to embedwith and train Afghan troops, and they

prepared for the mission with threeweeks of specialized training at theJoint Readiness Training Center at FortPolk, La. Because of increased tension,the advisory teams are specificallytrained to watch for suspicious behav-ior in the security forces among whomthey are embedded. GEN David Rodriguez, command-

ing general of U.S. Army Forces Com-mand, told AP that the first 47 advi-sory teams would deploy to southernAfghanistan in April and 46 more willhead to eastern Afghanistan this month.“It’s a way to thin the lines and putfewer of us over there and have moreof them do what they have to do,”said GEN Rodriguez.

Upcoming Deployments. The Depart-ment of Defense has named six majorunits to deploy this spring as part ofthe upcoming rotation of forces oper-ating in Afghanistan. The scheduledrotation of approximately 10,270 per-sonnel involves one corps headquar-

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News Call

Coalition Will Stay the Course in Afghanistan

U.S. Army/Jennifer Hartwig

Rangers Honored.Left to right, SGTNicholas Blohm,SGT JoshuaBoswell and SGTJustin Goucherfrom the 1st Battal-ion, 75th RangerRegiment, marchfrom the HunterArmy Airfield, Ga.,parade grounds inMarch after receiv-ing medals for theirservice during a deployment toAfghanistan last fall.

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Brigadier Generals: B.A. Becker from Dep. CG (Spt.), 25th Infantry Div., Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to Asst. Dep. Dir. for Jt. Training, J-7, Jt. Staff, Suffolk, Va.;D.J. Bishop from CoS, Third Army/USARCENT, Shaw AFB, S.C., to Asst. SG for Warrior Care and Transition/CG, WTC, ODAS, Alexandria, Va.; J.B. Burtonfrom Dep. Dir. for Ops., NMCC, Ops. Team-1, J-3, Jt. Staff, Washington, D.C., to Asst. Div. Cmdr., 2nd Infantry Div., Eighth U.S. Army, Korea; T.J. Edens fromAsst. Div. Cmdr., 2nd Infantry Div., Eighth U.S. Army, Korea, to CG, USACR Ctr./Dir. of Army Safety, Fort Rucker, Ala.; M.X. Garrett from CoS, XVIII AirborneCorps, Fort Bragg, N.C., to CG, USARAK/Dep. Cmdr., ALCOM, Fort Richardson, Alaska; W.W. Grigsby Jr. from CG, MC CoE, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., toDep. CG, 1st Armored Div., Fort Bliss, Texas; C.W. LeMasters Jr. from Cmdt., USAOS, SCoE, Fort Lee, Va., to CG, 13th ESC, Fort Hood, Texas; W.T. Lord,ARNG, from Asst. Div. Cmdr. (Maneuver), 28th Infantry Div., Pa. ARNG, to Dep. Senior Mil. Rep./Chief, NATO Advisory Team-Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina;T.P. McGuire from Dep. Chief, Legislative Liaison, OSA, Washington, D.C., to Dep. Cmdr., 101st Airborne Div. (AA), Fort Campbell, Ky.; P.M. Nakasone fromDep. Dir. for Trans-Regional Policy, J-5, Jt. Staff, Washington, D.C., to Dir., IDC, HQ, IJC, OEF; L.J. Richardson from CG, USAOTC, Fort Hood, Texas, to Dep.CG, 1st Cav. Div., Fort Hood; S.A. Shapiro from Dep. CoS, G-4, USAREUR and Seventh Army, Germany, to Dir., Materiel Enterprise Integration and Retro-grade Ops. Ctr., USF-A, OEF, Afghanistan; C.L. Taylor from Asst. Div. Cmdr. (Maneuver), 2nd Infantry Div., Eighth U.S. Army, Korea, to CoS, Third Army/US-ARCENT, Shaw AFB; B.K. Thompson from Dep. Dir. for Ops., NMCC, J-3, Jt. Staff, Washington, D.C., to Dep. Cmdr., 25th Infantry Div., Schofield Barracks,Hawaii; P.D. Utley from Dep. CoS, Ops. and Training, TRADOC, JB Langley-Eustis, Va., to Sen. Cmdr., Fort Stewart, Ga.; R.P. White from Dep. Cmdr, CAC-T,TRADOC, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to Dep. Cmdr., 3rd Infantry Div. (Maneuver), Fort Stewart, Ga.; D.A. Williams from Asst. SG for Warrior Care and Transi-tion/CG, WTC, ODAS, Alexandria, Va., to Asst. Div. Cmdr., 2nd Infantry Div., Eighth U.S. Army, Korea.

� ACIC—Army Capabilities Integration Center; ALCOM—U.S. Alaskan Cmd.; ARNG—Army National Guard; CAC-T—Combined Arms Center-Training;CAPE—Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation; CJCS—Chairman of the Jt. Chiefs of Staff; CJITF—Combined Joint Interagency Task Force; CoS—Chiefof Staff; DLA—Defense Logistics Agency; ESC—Support Cmd. (Expeditionary); FCoE—U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence; HQ—Headquarters; IDC—In-formation Dominance Center; IJC—International Security Assistance Force Jt. Cmd.; ISAF—International Security Assistance Force; JB—Joint Base; JCS—Jt.Chiefs of Staff; JTF-CS—Joint Task Force Civil Support; MCoE—U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence; MC CoE—Mission Command Center of Excel-lence; NMCC—National Military Command Center; NTM-A—NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan; OCE—Office of the Chief of Engineers; ODAS—Office of theDirector of the Army Staff; OEF—Operation Enduring Freedom; OSA—Office of the Secretary of the Army; OSD—Office of the Secretary of Defense; SCoE—U.S. Army Sustainment Center of Excellence; SG—Surgeon General; TRADOC—U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Cmd.; TSC—Theater Sustainment Cmd.;USAAC—U.S. Army Accessions Cmd.; USACC—U.S. Army Cadet Cmd.; USACE—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; USACR—U.S. Army Combat Readiness;USAOS—U.S. Army Ordnance School; USAOTC—U.S. Army Operational Test Cmd.; USAR—U.S. Army Reserve; USARAK—U.S. Army Alaska; USARC—U.S. Army Reserve Cmd.; USARCENT—U.S. Army Central Cmd.; USAREUR—U.S. Army Europe; USASOC—U.S. Army Special Ops. Cmd.; USAWC—U.SArmy War College; USF-A—U.S. Forces-Afghanistan; USF-I—U.S. Forces-Iraq; USNORTHCOM—U.S. Northern Cmd.; WTC—Warrior Transition Cmd.

*Assignments to general officer slots announced by the General Officer Management Office, Department of the Army. Some officers are listed at the gradeto which they are nominated, promotable or eligible to be frocked. The reporting dates for some officers may not yet be determined.

MG C.D. Luckey,USAR, from Asst.to the CJCS for Re-serve Matters, Jt.Staff, Washington,D.C., to CoS, US-NORTHCOM, Pe-terson AFB, Colo.

MG J.W. Mathis III,ARNG, from Dep.Dir. for Anti-Terror-ism/Homeland De-fense, J-34, Jt. Staff,Washington, D.C., toCmdr., JTF-CS, US-NORTHCOM, JBLangley-Eustis, Va.

MG J.M. McDon-ald from CG,USACC and FortKnox, Fort Knox,Ky., to CG, FCoEand Fort Sill, FortSill, Okla.

MG H.R. McMas-ter Jr. fromCmdr., CJITF-Shafafiyat, ISAF,OEF, Afghanis-tan, to CG, MCoEand Fort Benning,Fort Benning, Ga.

MG B.K. Mizusawa,USAR, from Dep. Dir.for Strategic Initiatives,J-5, Jt. Staff, Washing-ton, D.C., to Asst. tothe CJCS for ReserveMatters, Office of theChairman, JCS,Washington, D.C.

MG F.S. Rudesheimfrom Dep. Dir. for Jt.and CoalitionWarfighting, J-7, Jt.Staff, Suffolk, Va., toCG, U.S. ArmySouth, Fort SamHouston, Texas.

MG J.A. Smithfrom Dir., USAACDiscontinuanceTask Force, FortKnox, Ky., to CG,USACC and FortKnox.

MG A.A. CucoloIII from Dir., ForceDevelopment, G-8,USA, Washington,D.C., to Cmdt.,USAWC, CarlisleBarracks, Pa.

MG P.J. Donahue IIfrom Dir., ConceptDevelopment andLearning, ACIC, JBLangley-Eustis, Va.,to Dir., Force Devel-opment, G-8, USA,Washington, D.C.

MG K.S. Dowdfrom CG, 1stTSC, Camp Arif-jan, Kuwait, toDir., LogisticsOps., DLA, FortBelvoir, Va.

MG M.R. Eyre,USAR, from Dep.Chief of Engineers forReserve Component,OCE, Washington,D.C., to CG, USACE,Trans-Atlantic Divi-sion, Winchester, Va.

MG W.M.Golden Jr. fromDep. Cmdr. forPolice, NTM-A,to Dep. CG,Eighth U.S. Army,Korea.

MG P.J. LaCam-era from Dep.CG, 25th InfantryDiv., SchofieldBarracks, Hawaii,to Dep. CG, US-ASOC, FortBragg, N.C.

LTG R.B. Brown fromCG, MCoE and FortBenning, Fort Ben-ning, Ga., to CG, ICorps and JB Lewis-McChord, JB Lewis-McChord, Wash.

LTG D.D. Halver-son from CG,FCoE and Fort Sill,Fort Sill, Okla., toDep. CG/CoS,TRADOC, JB Lan-gley-Eustis, Va.

LTG R.P. Lennoxfrom Dep. CoS, G-8, USA, Washing-ton, D.C., to Princi-pal Dep. Dir.CAPE, OSD,Washington, D.C.

LTG J.W. Talley,USAR, CG, 84thTraining Cmd. (UnitReadiness), FortKnox, Ky., to Chief,USAR/CG, USARC,Washington, D.C.

MG J.S. Buchananfrom Dir., J-9, USF-I to Dep. CG, ICorps and JBLewis-McChord, JBLewis-McChord,Wash.

GENERAL OFFICER CHANGES*

ters (HQ), one division HQ, one bri-gade combat team HQ, two brigadecombat teams (BCTs) and a combat avi-ation brigade:

� V Corps HQ, Wiesbaden, Ger-many, more than 500 personnel.

� 1st Infantry Division HQ, Fort Ri-ley, Kan., more than 700 personnel.

� 76th Infantry BCT HQ, IndianaArmy National Guard, more than 70personnel.

� 173rd Airborne BCT, Vicenza, Italy,more than 3,600 personnel.

� 4th BCT, 4th Infantry Division,Fort Carson, Colo., more than 3,000 per-sonnel.

� 12th Combat Aviation Brigade,Katterbach, Germany, more than 2,400personnel.

Women Vets Recognized. The U.S.Army Women’s Foundation hosted aceremony in March inducting womenwho served in Vietnam into the ArmyWomen’s Hall of Fame. More than a dozen representatives of the Armywomen who served in Vietnam partici-pated in the event in Washington, D.C.They were presented with a memento

of their service that will be placed inthe Women in Military Service forAmerica memorial at Arlington Na-tional Cemetery. All had served withthe Women’s Army Corps in Vietnamwhen occupations for women in theArmy were limited to roles such asnurses and clerks. Including all the mil-itary services, some 11,000 Americanwomen served in Vietnam.

New Mom Qualifies. Only four monthsafter giving birth, U.S. Army WorldClass Athlete Program (WCAP) mem-ber CPT Mickey Kelly competed inMarch against women from 27 nationsto qualify for the 2012 Modern Pen-tathlon World Cup final, continuingher quest for a place on the U.S.Olympic team. The five-sport event—pistol shooting, fencing, 200-meter

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Olympics hopeful CPT Mickey Kelley

U.S. Army/Tim Hipps

CSM R.R. Kelleyfrom 3rd InfantryBCT, 1st CavalryDiv., Fort Hood,Texas, to 1st Ar-mored Div. andFort Bliss, Texas.

CSM J.E. Rid-dick from SDDC,Scott AFB, Ill., toCASCOM, FortLee, Va.

CSM G.L. Tycefrom 160th Sig-nal Bde., CampArifjan, Kuwait,to 5th SignalCmd., Germany.

COMMANDSERGEANTS

MAJORCHANGES*

*Command sergeants major positions as-signed to general officer commands.

� CASCOM—U.S. Army Combined ArmsSupport Cmd.; SDDC—U.S. Army MilitarySurface Deployment and Distribution Cmd.

freestyle swimming, a three-kilometercross-country run and show jumping—was especially demanding for CPTKelly: In between events she nursedher new daughter. She credits the Armyfor keeping her in the WCAP throughher pregnancy and allowing her to re-turn to training after the birth. AnOlympic qualifier in 2008, CPT Kellywas deployed to Iraq from Februarythrough December 2009.

Big Red 1 Aids Aviation. Soldiers fromthe 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battal-ion, 1st Aviation Regiment, CombatAviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division,are helping the Army test Apache andGray Eagle platforms in the skies abovethe National Training Center at Fort Ir-win, Calif., this year. The goal is to en-sure that the two platforms meet thekey performance parameters and capa-bility requirements the Army deter-mined for them.From March through mid-April,

more than 100 pilots and ground sol-diers from the division’s Company Cflew the Apache Block III as part of theaircraft’s initial operations testing andexperimentation. The pilots flew a va-riety of missions from deep attack andclose combat to unconventional opera-tions, averaging 12 flight hours perweek. In addition, they sought newways to use the increased capabilitiesof the Block III helicopter.While soldiers from Company C ver-

ified the speed and payload capabilitiesof the Block III, soldiers from CompanyF were training at Edwards Air ForceBase to the southwest. They will begin

the same sort of testing on the Gray Ea-gle Unmanned Aerial System later thisyear.

USMA’s Rodriguez Awarded. InMarch, U.S. Military Academy line-backer cadet Andrew Rodriguez re-ceived the Amateur Athletic Union’s2011 James E. Sullivan Award, whichannually honors the outstanding ama-teur athlete in the United States. Theaward, first presented in 1930, is basedon the qualities of character, leader-ship and sportsmanship. Rodriguez is the sixth football player

to receive the Sullivan Award and thethird West Point cadet. Felix (Doc)Blanchard was the first cadet and firstfootball player to win the award, in1945; cadet Y. Arnold Tucker won theaward the following year. An Academic All-American, Rodri-

guez also received the National Foot-ball Foundation’s William V. Camp-bell Trophy, recognizing his combinedacademic success, football perfor-mance and community leadership, inDecember. He is the son of GEN Da-vid M. Rodriguez, commander of U.S.Army Forces Command, and his wife,Ginny. Following graduation thismonth, Rodriguez is slated to begininfantry training at Fort Benning, Ga.,and then report to his first duty sta-tion in Vicenza, Italy.

RSLSP Deadline Extended. The dead-line for eligible servicemembers, veter-ans and their beneficiaries to apply forRetroactive Stop Loss Special Pay(RSLSP) has been extended to October

21, 2012. RSLSP was established tocompensate for the hardships militarymembers encountered when their ser-vice was involuntarily extended underStop Loss authority between Septem-ber 11, 2001, and September 30, 2009. Eligible members or their beneficia-

ries may submit claims to their respec-tive branch of military service in orderto receive the benefit of $500 for eachfull or partial month served in a StopLoss status. The services estimated 145,000 ser-

vicemembers, veterans and beneficia-ries were eligible for the benefit whenRSLSP began on October 21, 2009.Some of those qualified have not yetapplied. For more information or to apply

for the pay, go to http://www.defense.gov/stoploss.

Testing Performance. Researchers atthe U.S. Army Natick Soldier SystemsCenter (NSSC), Mass., are conductingstudies to come up with measure-ments of performance that representtasks soldiers must actually accom-plish in performance of their duties. The Army Physical Fitness Test, often

used as a measure of performance, con-sists of sit-ups, push-ups and a two-mile run—specific feats uncalled for incombat. The Military Performance Di-vision of the U.S. Army Research Insti-tute of Environmental Medicine atNSSC is looking at alternative tests tofind the ones most reliable, repeatableand relevant to functions soldiers mustactually perform. One test battery, the grenade throw,

required soldiers to lob inert grenadestoward a target 30 meters away. Othertests included a running long jumpwhile wearing a helmet and vest, a boxlift and a two-mile ruck march whilewearing full gear.NSSC also conducts laboratory tests

of physical fitness to determine howthose measurements correlate with per-formance tests. Results will be com-pared over a period of time to deter-mine their reliability.

Expanded Drug Testing. Beginningthis month, the Army is expandingtesting of soldiers for unauthorized

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PFC Payton A. Jones, 192LT Clovis T. Ray, 34SPC Daquane D. Rivers, 21SPC David W. Taylor, 20SPC Dennis P. Weichel Jr., 29SGT William R. Wilson III, 27

SPC Edward J. Acosta, 21SSG Jordan L. Bear, 25SGT Daniel J. Brown, 27PFC Johnathon F. Davis, 20SSG Jesse J. Grindey, 30CPT Aaron D. Istre, 37SGT Jamie D. Jarboe, 27

Army Casualties in AfghanistanThe following U.S. Army soldiers were reported killed supporting Oper-ation Enduring Freedom from March 1 to March 31, 2012. All nameshave been released through the Department of Defense; families havebeen notified.

use of prescription drugs, starting withhydrocodone and hydromorphone, twopainkillers that are widely used be-cause they are found in Vicodin andother brand-name drugs. The Armyplans to further expand and increase itsdrug-testing capabilities in the monthsahead.Figures in the Army 2020 Generating

Health and Discipline in the Force Ahead ofthe Strategic Reset, Report 2012, releasedin January (also known as the ArmyGold Book) indicate the seriousness ofthe prescription drug problem amongcivilians and the dangers the medicines

pose. Drug-induced deaths, includingthose from prescription medications,have risen steadily, outnumberingdeaths from firearms or suicides in fis-cal year (FY) 2004 and vehicle accidentsin FY 2009. Fatal poisonings from pre-scription painkillers alone have morethan tripled since 1999.The Army currently tests for illegal

substances and began testing for oxy-codone and oyxmorphone about fouryears ago. Army commanders are givenmuch leeway and are allowed to ran-domly test at least 100 percent of theirend strength every year.

For more information about theArmy Substance Abuse Program, visithttp://acsap.army.mil/sso/pages/index.jsp. The Army Gold Book is on-line at http://usarmy.vo.llnwd.net/e2/c/downloads/232541.pdf.

Army Partners on Energy. The Army,partnering with industry for up to $7billion dollars in renewable energysources, has issued a draft request forproposal (RFP) that could allow nu-merous projects to begin across thenation.The $7 billion will be spent for up to

30 years to purchase energy that is pro-duced from renewable energy plantsconstructed, owned and operated bycontractors. No awards will be madefrom the draft, but the Army will useindustry feedback to develop the finalRFP. Katharine Hammack, Assistant Sec-

retary of the Army for Installations,Energy & Environment, told reportersat a media roundtable in March thatthe investment will help the Armyreach its goal of having one-quarter ofthe Army’s energy come from renew-able sources by 2025. The Army currently uses 2.5 million

megawatt hours each year.

R&R Flights End at DFW. The lastRest and Recuperation (R&R) flight touse the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW),Texas, airport as a hub for troops re-turning home on leave from theaterlanded in March, when the Army offi-cially closed the DFW Personnel As-sistance Point (PAP) because of an ex-pected decrease in soldiers travelingfor R&R. The USO facility at DFWwill remain open to serve individualsand small groups, but the Army hasconsolidated operations with the At-lanta PAP, where about 60 percent oftroops returning on R&R fly into Harts-field-Jackson Atlanta International Air-port. Fewer troops will be traveling on

R&R because of the Army’s recent re-duction of deployment time to ninemonths, which does not allow for mid-tour leave, as well as the end of opera-tions in Iraq and the forthcoming draw-down in Afghanistan. �

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Bataan Remembered. Participants in the 23rd Annual Bataan Memo-rial Death March begin their trek on White Sands Missile Range,N.M., in late March. The event included a full marathon and a 15.2-mile honorary march. Sixteen survivors of the 1942 march attended.

U.S. Army/Daniel Liddicoet