Air Force Chief of Staff to Retire

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U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release No. 832-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2005


Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper will retire after 39 years of service at a ceremony at Andrews AFB Md. Sept. 2. His effective date of retirement will be Nov. 1, 2005.

Acting Secretary of the Air Force Pete Geren will host the ceremony at which Jumper will be retired and Gen. T. Michael Moseley, currently serving as Air Force vice chief of staff, will be sworn in as the eighteenth Air Force chief of staff.

The ceremony will air live on the Pentagon Channel and through streaming video on Air Force Link www.af.mil.

More information on the event and information for media wishing to attend will be released in late August. Air Force public affairs contacts are: Maj. Glen Roberts, [phone] or Capt.Aaron Burgstein, [phone].

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050812-4407.html



Two Joint Chiefs of Staff resign in the same day..?

[rzemanfl]

1. They are breaking up the coup without using the meat hooks and

piano wire option.

[SeaRust]

6. So exactly what did happen at the

Five sided puzzle palace this week. ---something is definitely fishy....

[OzarkDem]

9. And the news media is covering it up

One of the biggest stories of the week was wall to wall coverage of the four star general's adulterous affair.

Just as with Plame, these news editors and producers know what's going on and they cover it up. Our freedom, lives and national treasure sacrificed just so Sumner Redstone and friends can buy a few more media outlets.

[catnhatnh]

2. And we lose 3 of 11 four stars in a week????

....the attrition rate is WORSE than Iraq....I'm starting to believe the coup rumors....Fired=coup supporter, Retired=fence sitter....

[Lerkfish]

7. although I prefer to think that Bushco are the ones pulling off the coup

and these guys are opposing it as patriots.

you aren't committing mutiny when you apprehend the mutinists.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Hey, I thought BushCo cleaned house at the Pentagon last summer

when they canned all the generals who were not "True Believers." Guess they missed a few of the independent thinkers and patriots, and are finishing the job now.

[DemoTex]

4. USAF General Jumper missed his calling.

Army Airborne (101 or 82, for example) needed this guy! All the way sir! Jumpmaster Jumper. Actually, I'm sure he endured his share of early bail-out jokes in the USAF.


DemoTex cooking "Q" for dad's b-day party tomorrow in Atlanta. Notice the T-Shirt!

On edit: DemoTex has never bailed-out! Rode one in once, but that is another story for another night! Remind me to tell it some day.

[Dudley_DUright]

5. Consider yourself reminded

Would love to hear the story when you have the time.

[wli]

8. whoa total Night of the Long Knives redux

This is some scary, scary stuff.