Edward F. Dorman III: The assistant deputy chief of staff will lead the 8th Theater Sustainment Command
Select an option below to continue reading this premium story.
Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading.
Fort Shafter will be getting two new commanding generals.
The Army this week announced that Maj. Gen. Edward F. Dorman III, currently assistant deputy chief of staff in Washington, D.C., will be the next commanding general of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command. The 8th is responsible for logistics sustainment in the Pacific, providing supplies, maintenance, transport, engineer, personnel and military police support to units from Alaska to Korea, spanning 9,000 miles.
The second general is to be named after the announcement that Maj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens, commanding general, U.S. Army Engineer Division, will be moving to Washington to become deputy commanding general for military and international operations for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Pacific Ocean Division is one of nine divisions worldwide that make up the Army Corps of Engineers.
Stevens assumed command in 2011 of 37,000 civilian employees and 650 military members in Alaska, Hawaii, Japan, Korea and other Pacific areas.
At Pearl Harbor, Pacific Fleet’s chaplain, Navy Capt. Brent W. Scott, has been selectedto be a rear admiral and will be assigned as chaplain of the Marine Corps, deputy chief of chaplains and deputy director of religious ministries in the Office of Chief of Naval Operations.