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  • 2016-04-18 (xsd:date)
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  • What the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Must Tell the Nation (en)
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  • On 5 May 2015, President Barack Obama nominated United States Marine Corps General Joseph Fighting Joe Dunford to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and General Dunford took over that position from Army General Martin Dempsey on 25 September 2015. On 9 April 2016, the web site US Defense Watch published an article attributed to Ray Starmann, reporting the supposed text of a speech General Dunford delivered announcing his resignation as chairman of the JCS. It began: General Dunford delivered no such speech, nor has he announced his resignation from his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or his retirement from active service. Those actions, and the text of his purported speech, were purely the invention of US Defense Watch, whose article on the topic is now headed by the following disclaimer: In fact, rather than resigning and making such an overtly political speech, General Dunford, in his capacity as JCS Chairman, recently told U.S. military troops to Stay out of politics: (en)
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