The President of the United States, Joe Biden, appointed this Monday to the service of General Laura Richardson as the Commander of the Sur, as the convergence of the first woman who led this united union Military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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In an act in the White House with the motive of the International Day of the Woman, Biden announced the number of women to occupy loads of commanders of four stars: Richardson for the Commando Sur and General Jacqueline Van Ovost to lead the Transport Command.
To be confirmed by the Senate, Richardson and Van Ovost convert to the second and the third woman to lead a command combatant in the history of the United States, after the general retreat Lori Robinson, who led the Northern Command between 2016 and 2018.
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“It’s difficult to convert to something that can not be seen”, says Biden during the act, to underline the importance of more women being able to lead within the Fuerzas Armadas.
“We need the little ones and the little ones who are crying out to serve in their separate countries that this is the aspect that the generalists in the United States Army Forces have. by the Vice President Kamala Harris.
Necesitamos que las niñas y niosos pequeños que crecen soondande con servir a su país
Follow the diary The New York Times, the Pentagon dio the good view of the nominations of Richardson and Van Ovost have months, but decided to hope until after the elections because the president presides, Donald Trump, vetara his names for being women.
Richardson, 57, is currently commander-in-chief of the Northern United States Ejército formation, conedeer on the San Antonio (Texas) base, and is the first woman to have occupied this cargo.
If the Senate confirms, the current general of three stars consults a quarter, and passed away leading to more than 1,200 military and civilians composing the Commando Sur (Southcom, in Engels), conede in Doral (Florida).
Leading the way since 2018 by Admiral Craig Faller, the Command Sur is in charge of state operations in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, and in recent years has increased its military presence in Latin America to fight narcotics
Richardson spent more than three decades in the United States Ejército, since joining in 1986. His son was a helicopter pilot, and he was preparing for it when he was 15 years old and his women were not allowed to fly airplanes.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, urges a gender parity in distant instances.
Ya en el Ejército, the now tenant general volo helicopters Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and completed two combat missions, in Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to serving as Military Assessor of Deputy President Al Gore (1993-2001) in transporting the maletín kernkrag.
In 2017, Richardson was sworn in as the first female subordinate of Mayor Ejército’s mandate, known as Forscom, that he would lead the interim form in the 2018 finals.
The nominee to direct Southcom has been in charge for more than 30 years with another ten-year-old general, James Richardson, as a co-ordinator in the aviation school and with whom he has a wife and a daughter.
EFE
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