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New Commander for 3/2 SBCT

Oct- 5-2010 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

New 3rd Brigade leader: U.S. military should be like Wayne Gretzky - The News Tribune

The next leader of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint-Base Lewis McChord is coming off an assignment at the School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth where he analyzed what he called "an era of persistent engagement" for U.S. forces.

Col. Charles Webster is to take command of the brigade at a ceremony Friday. He succeeds Col. David E. Funk, who has led the brigade since November 2007. With Funk, the brigade returned from a yearlong deployment in Iraq last month.Webster led a Stryker battalion in the Alaska-based 172nd Brigade from June 2004 to December 2006, including a 16-month deployment to Baghdad and Mosul.More recently, he was an instructor at Fort Leavenworth.

In August 2009, he submitted his study of asymmetrical threats against the U.S., concluding that American forces would have to remain continuously engaged at different levels to head off surprises like the Sept. 11 terror attacks. He wrote that the U.S. military that fits that strategy should feature:


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