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Anonymous ID: ac6d34 June 19, 2021, 2:32 p.m. No.13940099   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0103 >>0130 >>0173 >>0279 >>0382 >>0546 >>0656 >>0744 >>0815

Vice Adm. William R. Merz, U.S. Navy, has been nominated for reappointment to the rank of vice admiral and assignment as deputy chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans and Strategy, N3/N5, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.C. Merz is currently serving as commander, SEVENTH Fleet, Yokosuka, Japan.

 

Rear Adm. Francis D. Morley, U.S. Navy, has been nominated for appointment to the rank of vice admiral and assignment as principal military deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (Research, Development, and Acquisition), Washington, D.C. Morley is currently serving as director, Navy International Programs Office, Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C.

 

Rear Adm. Darse E. Crandall, Judge Advocate General Corps, U.S. Navy, for appointment to the rank of vice admiral and assignment as Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Crandall is currently serving as deputy Judge Advocate General of the Navy/commander, Naval Legal Service Command, Washington, D.C.

 

Capt. Max G. McCoy, Jr., has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral (lower half). McCoy is currently serving as commander, Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center, Fallon, Nevada.

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2663305/flag-officer-announcements/

 

 

Colonel Lanny J. Acosta, Jr., U.S. Army, has been designated as Chief Trial Judge for the Military Commissions Trial Judiciary with an effective date of July 1, 2021.

 

Col. Acosta replaces Col. Douglas K. Watkins, the current Chief Trial Judge, who will retire from the Army July 31.

 

The Chief Trial Judge assigns military judges to preside over each military commissions case referred to trial.

 

For more information about the Office of Military Commissions, visit https://www.mc.mil.

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2662266/chief-trial-judge-named-for-military-commissions/

Anonymous ID: ac6d34 June 19, 2021, 2:32 p.m. No.13940103   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0111 >>0173 >>0279 >>0382 >>0546 >>0656 >>0744 >>0815

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10th United States – Mexico Defense Bilateral Working Group Discuss Bilateral Defense Cooperation

JUNE 18, 2021

On June 17, 2021, Under Secretary for Policy, Dr. Colin Kahl, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, Mr. Ronald Moultrie, co-hosted the tenth meeting of the United States – Mexico Bilateral Defense Working Group with Major General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, Chief of Staff of the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) and Vice Admiral Luis Javier Robinson Portillo Villanueva Chief of Staff of the Mexican Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR). The Defense Bilateral Working Group is the bilateral defense component of United States – Mexico high level cooperation efforts.

 

The co-chairs established mutual objectives, lines of effort and priorities to address the shared bilateral and transnational challenges facing our region. The co-chairs recognized that North America has regional responsibilities and complex challenges are best addressed by collaborative and cooperative responses. Together with the supporting Defense Bilateral Strategic Framework, the Defense Bilateral Working Group provides a process for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico's defense institutions. The purpose is to build a common understanding of challenges and to identify and implement initiatives to promote bilateral defense cooperation.

 

The co-chairs agreed to expand U.S. and Mexican defense cooperation; advance bilateral capability to address mutually identified regional defense challenges; expand bilateral support and cooperation for regional defense cooperation activities; and, exchange lessons-learned and best practices.

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2663447/10th-united-states-mexico-defense-bilateral-working-group-discuss-bilateral-def/