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Armenpress: Eric Chewning appointed new Pentagon Chief of Staff

Eric Chewning appointed new Pentagon Chief of Staff

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10:03, 9 January, 2019

YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. Eric Chewning has been appointed as the new Chief of Staff of the US Secretary of Defense, replacing Kevin Sweeney, Pentagon said in a press release, TASS reports.

“Mr. Eric D. Chewning has accepted the position of chief of staff to the secretary of defense. Since October 2017, Mr. Chewning served the administration as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy,” according to the press release.

Pentagon Chief of Staff Kevin Sweeney resigned on January 5. At the end of December, Pentagon press secretary Dana White left her post following the resignation of head of the department James Mattis. The duties of the head of the Pentagon are currently performed by his first deputy, Patrick Shanahan. Mattis, in his resignation petition, announced that he had decided to leave the position due to disagreements with President Donald Trump.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan




Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS