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No easy job ahead for new chief

Jun-12-2007 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT , 4/2 SBCT , 5/2 SBCT

MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr. arrived Monday to take charge of Fort Lewis as it endures its most difficult months yet in the war in Iraq.

The 52-year-old Detroit native pledged at his assumption of command ceremony to support the families of deployed soldiers and the rear detachments of deployed units “as they truly shoulder the load during this tough fight.”

As if to underscore the point, the Department of Defense later announced that three more Fort Lewis Stryker soldiers were killed in Iraq over the weekend. Thirty have died since the beginning of May.

Jacoby noted the post has sent more than 26,000 soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. There are some 11,000 in Iraq now, or en route.

“We’ve been there since the beginning, and we’ll be there until we finish the nation’s calling,” Jacoby said. “We will remain committed to success in our principal responsibility, to generate combat power for the nation.

“Our Army and our country need us to do that, and we will not fail.”

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