U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Pat White, III Armored Corps Commanding General, assumed command of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve from U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul LaCamera, XVIII Airborne Corps Commanding General, during a transfer of authority ceremony in Baghdad on Sept. 14, 2019.
Commanding General for U.S. Central Command, Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. presided over the event. He spoke of the progress made by the XVIII Airborne Corps in the fight for the enduring defeat of Daesh following its territorial defeat on March 23, which completed the recovery of 110,000 km2 of territory across Iraq and Syria and liberation of nearly eight million Iraqi and Syrian people from Daesh’s brutal control.
