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2009-09-10 Home Front: WoT

French General To Assume North America NATO Command

A French general is set to take command of NATO's only strategic command in North America, becoming the first non-American officer in the alliance's 60-year history to permanently fill a command post.

Gen. Stephane Abrial will be one of NATO's two supreme allied commanders, which are traditionally filled by four-star U.S. generals. He succeeds U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis at NATO's Allied Common Transformation in Norfolk.

The historic change-of-command ceremony will be aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower this morning. NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen is to speak.

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#1 Good luck and best wishes to all concerned.

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