Gen. Andrew P. Poppas will take cost of Army Forces Command on July 8 throughout a ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C., in response to an announcement Thursday morning.
Poppas will take command of FORSCOM from Gen. Michael X. Garrett.
Army officers on the Basic Officer Administration Workplace didn’t instantly reply to a question from Army Occasions asking the place Garrett is slated to go subsequent in his profession. Garrett has led FORSCOM since 2019. Previous to that, he was the commanding normal of U.S. Army Central.
FORSCOM is the biggest Army command. It’s charged with producing skilled and prepared Army models to U.S. combatant commanders across the globe.
Poppas final served because the director for the Joint Employees. There, he assisted the chairman in his function as advisor to the president and secretary of protection. Previous to assuming that place, Poppas served as director for operations (J3) on the Joint Employees.
Poppas was commissioned by way of the U.S. Navy Academy at West Level, N.Y., in 1988. Along with holding roles on the Joint Employees, Poppas beforehand served because the commanding normal of the a hundred and first Airborne Division.
Poppas has additionally had quite a few assignments on Fort Bragg with the 82nd Airborne Division. His operational deployments embrace excursions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
