Cody to retire, Odierno will be new vice chief

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Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody will retire this summer. He has been the Army vice chief of staff since June 2004.


Cody to retire, Odierno will be new vice chief
By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 16:35:09 EST

Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody will step down this summer and be replaced by Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, who is completing more than a year as a top ground commander in Iraq. Odierno, an artilleryman, commanded the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq in 2003-2004 and is currently commander of III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas, and commanding general of Multi-National Corps – Iraq, a position he has held since December 2006.

In December 2003, Odierno announced that 4th ID soldiers were part of an operation in which former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been located and arrested. He made the announcement in a press conference 85 miles north of Baghdad in Tikrit in one of Hussein’s former palaces.

Cody, 57, an Apache attack helicopter pilot, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1972. He became the Army’s 31st vice chief of staff in June 2004. Before that he was deputy chief of staff G-3 in charge of Army operations for 18 months. During a career spanning more than 35 years, he held a multitude of commands, including commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

His sons, Tyler and Clinton, are captains in the Army and each flies the Apache.

Odierno’s son, Anthony Odierno, served as an Army officer in Iraq and lost his left arm in an RPG attack in 2004.


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