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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 975-12
December 13, 2012
General Officer Announcements

*********** Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta announced today that the President has made the following nominations:*

*********** Army Col. Christopher S. Ballard has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Ballard is currently serving as director, Army Cyber Operations Integration Center/G-3, Second Army/U.S. Army Cyber Command, Fort Belvoir, Va.*

*********** Army Col. David G. Bassett has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Bassett is currently serving as deputy program executive officer, Combat Support and Combat Service Support, Warren, Mich.*

*********** Army Col. Donald C. Bolduc has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Bolduc is currently serving as commander, Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.*

*********** Army Col. Edward M. Daly has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Daly is currently serving as commandant, U.S Army Ordnance School, U.S. Army Sustainment Center of Excellence, Fort Lee, Va.*

*********** Army Col. Malcolm B. Frost has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Frost is currently serving as deputy director for operations, National Military Command Center Operations Team Four, J-3, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.*

*********** Army Col. Donald G. Fryc has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Fryc is currently serving as commandant, U.S. Army Air Defense School, U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence, Fort Sill, Okla.*

*********** Army Col. Anthony C. Funkhouser has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Funkhouser is currently serving as commander, U.S. Army Engineer Division, Northwestern, Portland, Ore.

*********** Army Col. Peter A. Gallagher has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Gallagher is currently serving as deputy commander, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, Fort Huachuca, Ariz.*

*********** Army Col. William K. Gayler has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Gayler is currently serving as deputy commander, 7th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.*

*********** Army Col. Mark W. Gillette has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Gillette is currently serving as senior defense official/defense attaché Cambodia, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.*

*********** Army Col. David B. Haight has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Haight is currently serving as commandant, U.S. Army Infantry School, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Ga.*

*********** Army Col. Joseph P. Harrington has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Harrington is currently serving as executive assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.*

*********** Army Col. Michael L. Howard has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Howard is currently serving as director, future operations, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.*

*********** Army Col. John P. Johnson has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Johnson is currently serving as deputy commander (operations), 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.*

*********** Army Col. James E. Kraft Jr., has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Kraft is currently serving as deputy commander, Joint Task Force-Sword, U.S. Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.*

*********** Army Col. Michael E. Kurilla has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Kurilla is currently serving as assistant commander -- support, Joint Special Operations Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.*

*********** Army Col. Paul J. Laughlin II has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Laughlin is currently serving as commandant, U.S. Army Armor School, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Ga.*

*********** Army Col. Joseph M. Martin has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Martin is currently serving as commander, U.S. Army Operational Test Command, Fort Hood, Texas.

*********** Army Col. Terrence J. McKenrick has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* McKenrick is currently serving as chief of staff, Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq, U.S. Central Command, Iraq.*

*********** Army Col. Christopher P. McPadden has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* McPadden is currently serving as director of future plans, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.*

*********** Army Col. John E. O'Neil has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* O'Neil is currently serving as commandant, U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Va.*

*********** Army Col. Mark J. O'Neil has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* O'Neil is currently serving as deputy commander (operations), 10th Mountain Division (Light), Fort Drum, N.Y.*

*********** Army Col. Erik C. Peterson has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Peterson is currently serving as deputy commander, U.S. Army Cadet Command, Fort Knox, Ky.*

*********** Army Col. Andrew P. Poppas has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Poppas is currently serving as deputy commander (operations), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.*

*********** Army Col. James E. Rainey has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Rainey is currently serving as director, Mission Command Center of Excellence, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.*

*********** Army Col. Kent D. Savre has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Savre is currently serving as commander, U.S. Army Engineer Division, North Atlantic, Fort Hamilton Military Community, Brooklyn, N.Y.*

*********** Army Col. Wilson A. Shoffner Jr. has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Shoffner is currently serving as deputy commander (support), 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.*

*********** Army Col. Mark S. Spindler has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Spindler is currently serving as deputy provost marshal general/deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command and Army Corrections Command, Quantico, Va.*

*********** Army Col. Sean P. Swindell has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Swindell is currently serving as assistant commander for Special Operations Forces, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.

*********** Army Col. Randy S. Taylor has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Taylor is currently serving as deputy chief of staff, G-6, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, N.C.*

*********** Army Col. John C. Thomson III has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Thomson is currently serving as director, chief of staff, Army Coordination Group, Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.*

*********** Army Col. Leon N. Thurgood has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Thurgood is currently serving as the deputy program executive officer, Missiles and Space, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.*

*********** Army Col. Flem B. Walker Jr., has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Walker is currently serving as director for strategy and integration, G-45/7, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.*

*********** Army Col. Robert P. Walters Jr., has been nominated for appointment to the rank of brigadier general.* Walters is currently serving as deputy director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Arlington, Va.