Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson: US nominates first female combatant commander, According To CNN President Barack Obama intends to accredit the aboriginal changeable adversary administrator in the military's history, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Friday.
Carter appear that he had recommended Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson to be appointed to advance U.S. Northern Command while speaking at a breakfast hosted by Politico.
He declared Robinson as accepting "very abysmal operational experience," "very acceptable authoritative experience" and "just so happens would as well be the aboriginal changeable adversary commander."
Robinson, who currently serves as administrator of Pacific Air Forces, had continued been accounted for the position.
Northern Command oversees aggressive operations in the continental United States, Alaska, Canada and Mexico. There are six bounded adversary commands that baby-sit aggressive operations about the globe. There are aswell three added anatomic commands that baby-sit Special Forces, amplitude and busline operations.
Combatant commands are led by a four-star accepted or admiral. The aboriginal woman to accomplish the rank of four-star accepted was Army Gen. Ann Dunwoody, who accustomed the advance in 2008.
Carter accepted Robinson's command experience, cogent the admirers that she was able-bodied ill-fitted for the job.
Robinson aboriginal entered the Air Force in 1982 and became an air action manager, which are amenable for command and ascendancy of aircraft in air action space.
Brooke Stedman, the agent administrator of Women in All-embracing Security, a non-government alignment that supports women in the acreage of all-embracing accord and security, accepted the move, cogent CNN, "Our avant-garde aggressive is proving its adeptness to acclimate to alteration civic ethics and accredit admiral with the greatest qualifications, behindhand of their gender."
"We accept advancing forth now a lot of changeable admiral who are awfully strong. Lori absolutely fits in that category," Carter said.
Carter appear that he had recommended Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson to be appointed to advance U.S. Northern Command while speaking at a breakfast hosted by Politico.
Robinson, who currently serves as administrator of Pacific Air Forces, had continued been accounted for the position.
Northern Command oversees aggressive operations in the continental United States, Alaska, Canada and Mexico. There are six bounded adversary commands that baby-sit aggressive operations about the globe. There are aswell three added anatomic commands that baby-sit Special Forces, amplitude and busline operations.
Combatant commands are led by a four-star accepted or admiral. The aboriginal woman to accomplish the rank of four-star accepted was Army Gen. Ann Dunwoody, who accustomed the advance in 2008.
Carter accepted Robinson's command experience, cogent the admirers that she was able-bodied ill-fitted for the job.
Robinson aboriginal entered the Air Force in 1982 and became an air action manager, which are amenable for command and ascendancy of aircraft in air action space.
Brooke Stedman, the agent administrator of Women in All-embracing Security, a non-government alignment that supports women in the acreage of all-embracing accord and security, accepted the move, cogent CNN, "Our avant-garde aggressive is proving its adeptness to acclimate to alteration civic ethics and accredit admiral with the greatest qualifications, behindhand of their gender."
"We accept advancing forth now a lot of changeable admiral who are awfully strong. Lori absolutely fits in that category," Carter said.
