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Mulholland to go to Joint Special Ops
By Henry Cuningham
Staff writer

Brig. Gen. John F. Mulholland Jr. will become the deputy commander of the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, the Army announced on Friday.

Mulholland will turn over command of Army Special Forces Command to Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Csrnko on July 17 at Fort Bragg.

The Joint Special Operations Command oversees the counterterrorist forces of the Army, Navy and Air Force, including Delta Force and some Navy SEALs.

Mulholland commanded the 5th Special Forces Group, which is based at Fort Campbell, Ky., from 2001 to 2003. During that time, he was in charge of joint task forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the mid-1990s, he served as an assistant operations officer, deputy operations officer and operations officer in Delta Force.

Csrnko has been commander of Special Operations Command, Europe, at Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, since August 2003. Mulholland became the leader of the Army’s Green Berets on Sept. 30.

Special Forces Command has about 9,500 soldiers in five active-duty Special Forces groups, including the 3rd Group and 7th Group at Fort Bragg. The command trains and prepares Special Forces units to deploy and conduct missions around the world.

In another military announcement, the Air Force said Friday that Brig. Gen. Ronald R. Ladnier will become to vice commander of the Tanker Airlift Control Center of the Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.

Ladnier attended Seventy-First High School and graduated from Douglas Byrd High School in 1973. He commanded the first operational C-17 airlift squadron and has been nominated for promotion of two-star general.

He is director of resource integration for the Air Force deputy chief of staff for logistics, installations and mission support at the Pentagon. In that job, he is responsible for the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of more than $30 billion annually for Air Force logistics systems and functions, according to his military biography.
Military editor Henry Cuningham can be reached at cuninghamh 'at' fayettevillenc.com or 486-3585.