A new commander will soon lead the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, according to a Department of Defense announcement Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Jonathan Braga, who is scheduled for a promotion, will become the new commander in mid-August, a spokesman said.
Plans have not yet been announced concerning the next assignment for Lt. Gen. Francis Beaudette, who has led the command since June 8, 2018.
Braga is currently the deputy commanding general for the U.S. Army Pacific Command at Fort Shafter, Hawaii.
He is no stranger to Fort Bragg.
According to his biography, Braga was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and commissioned as an infantry officer in 1991.
His biography states that after graduating from the Special Forces Qualification Course, he served in multiple command spots to include that 7th Special Forces Group when the unit was located at Fort Bragg and in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, from 1995 to 2001.
After deployments and humanitarian relief operations to the Caribbean, Central America and South America, he returned to Fort Bragg to serve in a U.S. Army Special Operations Command special mission unit.
He completed multiple deployments as a task force commander to Afghanistan and Iraq for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and Operation Willing Spirit in Columbia from 2002 to 2005, according to his biography.
After receiving his master’s degree from the Naval War College, he served as the operations officer for the Joint Reconnaissance Task Force as part of Joint Special Operations Command in Washington, D.C. and led a special operations task force across three geographical commands from 2006 to 2008, Braga returned back to Fort Bragg.
His biography states that he served in several command and staff positions in the same USAOC special mission unit between 2008 and 2012, completing multiple deployments in Iraq as a task force commander.
In other Fort Bragg and Special Forces changes, Pentagon and Army officials announced the next assignment for Maj. Gen. John Brennan Jr.
Brennan has served as commander of the 1st Special Forces Command since November 2019.
His next assignment will be as commander for the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, Iraq, according to therelease.
Maj. Gen. Richard Angle, deputy commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, will be the new commander of the 1st Special Forces Command.
In other Fort Bragg changes, Maj. Gen. Brian Mennes will become deputy commanding general for the 18th Airborne Corps.
Mennes most recently served as commander for the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, according to the release.
Brig. Gen. Eugene Darrin Cox will become the command surgeon for the U.S. Army Forces Command.
Cox most recently served as commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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