Joe Biden nominated the first woman to lead the United States Command

Joe Biden nominates the Avenue General Laura Richardson as Jefa del Comando Sur, which converts to the first female that directs this unit encircles the military operations of the United States of America and the Caribbean.

In an act in the White House with the motive of the International Day of the Woman, the North American president announced the number of women to occupy cargo ships of four stars: Richardson by the Commando Sur and General Jacqueline Van Ovost to lead the Transport Command.

To be confirmed by the Senate, Richardson and Van Ovost are converted to open the second and the third woman to lead a combatant command in the history of the United States, after General Retired Lori Robinson, who led the Northern Command between 2016 and 2018.

“It’s difficult to convert to anything you can see,” Biden said during the act, underlining the importance of more women being able to lead inside the Armored Forces. And aggregated: “Each of these women has led to demonstrations of incomparable, integrity and peace with the countries (…) Today is the International Day of Women, and all necessary to recognize the logos that break their barriers. women ”.

“We need the little ones and the little ones who are crying out to serve their country in this state that this is the aspect that the general in the United States Army Forces. This is the aspect that holds the Vice Presidents of the United States “, completed the mandate, which was supported by Vice President Kamala Harris.

Agreed to the information by the diary The New York Times, The Pentagon dio the good view of the nominations of Richardson and Van Ovost months ago, but he decided to wait until after the elections, because the president, Donald Trump, will show his names by his women.

Richardson, 57, is currently the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern United States Ejército Formation, based in San Antonio (Texas)., and it is the first woman to have occupied this vrag.

If the Senate confirms, the actual tenant general of three stars consecrates a quarter, and pasaría to lead the more than 1,200 military and civilian that composed the Commando Sur (Southcom, in English), conede in Doral (Florida).

Liderado desde 2018 por el admirante Craig Faller, el Commando Sur se encarga de las opad operations op Centroamerica, Sudamerica y el Caribbean, y in the last few years has increased its military presence at the expense of Latin America in order to fight against drug trafficking.

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.

Ya en el Ejército, la ahora teniente general voló helicopteros Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk y Completion of combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to serving as Military Assessor of former President Al Gore (1993-2001) and transporting nuclear malethine.

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 the Southcom has been in place for over 30 years with another ten-year general, James Richardson, as a connection in the aviation school and with the fact that it has a hija and a nieta.

With EFE information

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