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The 25th Infantry Division consists of two infantry brigade combat teams, a division artillery, a combat aviation brigade, and a division sustainment brigade. Soldiers from 3rd Brigade engage a simulated enemy during an exercise near Schofield Barracks, Hawaii A CH-47 from 3-25th GSAB landing on USS Tarawa in the Pacific Ocean. 25th Infantry ...
The brigade, along with 1st Stryker BCT, 25th ID, which is also stationed in Alaska, shared in the history of the 25th ID, but was not subordinate to the 25th ID headquarters; the chain of command went directly from United States Army Alaska to United States Army Pacific. On 6 June 2022, the 1st Stryker BCT and 4th Infantry BCT(A), 25th ID were ...
Article II Section 2 of the Constitution designates the President as "Commander in Chief" of the Army, Navy and state militias. [2] The President exercises this supreme command authority through the civilian Secretary of Defense, who by federal law is the head of the department, has authority direction, and control over the Department of Defense, and is the principal assistant to the President ...
The chain of command leads from the president (as commander-in-chief) through the secretary of defense down to the newest recruits. [2] [3] The United States Armed Forces are organized through the United States Department of Defense, which oversees a complex structure of joint command and control functions with many units reporting to various commanding officers.
It is the secretary’s operational role as assistant and adviser to the president that raises more serious questions about whether Austin’s actions created a broken link in the chain of command.
"Command is exercised by virtue of office and the special assignment of members of the Armed Forces holding military rank who are eligible to exercise command." [2] In general, military personnel give orders only to those directly below them in the chain of command and receive orders only from those directly above them.
Up until 2017, Second Army was a direct reporting unit to the Army CIO/G-6, with the CIO reporting to the Secretary of the Army, while the G-6 reports to the Army Chief of Staff. A 2017 reorganization eliminated the need for Second Army's network operations coordinating function, and the headquarters was inactivated on 31 March 2017. [ 10 ]
Marcus S. Evans (born 1970) is a United States Army major general who has served as commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division since August 25, 2023. [1] [2] He most recently served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Special Operations Command from September 2021 to November 20, 2024.