From the Marine Corps Times:
Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen will be nominated to replace Army Gen. David Petraeus in Afghanistan and is expected to take command by September, a senior White House official said Wednesday.
Allen will leave his position as deputy commanding general of U.S. Central Command, where he has been since July 2008, and become special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington for the next few months.
During that time, the official said, Allen will “work through the transition, he’ll spend quite a bit of time in Afghanistan and assuming Senate confirmation, will take command in the beginning of September.”
In confirmed by the Senate, Allen would become the first Marine Corps general at the helm of U.S. operations in Afghanistan since operations began there in October 2001.”
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