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Fayetteville (NC) Observer
October 22, 2008
By Henry Cuningham, Military editor
Robert M. Gates will make his first visit as secretary of defense to Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base on Thursday.
He will preside over a naturalization ceremony at Pope Air Force Base at 10 a.m. to administer the oath of citizenship to 40 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines stationed in North Carolina.
During the day, Gates will visit U.S. Army Special Operations Command units.
“Part of his visit is to look at our operations and the capabilities that Army special operations brings to the fight,” said Lt. Col. John Clearwater, a spokesman for the three-star command that oversees the Army’s Rangers and Special Forces.
Later in the afternoon, Gates will meet with 15 spouses from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, said Lt. Col. Clarence Counts, a division spokesman. The brigade, which is based around the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, is deploying to Iraq in November.
The secretary will hold a 10-minute press conference at the Hall of Heroes off Longstreet Road on Fort Bragg at 4:30 p.m.
Gates was sworn in Dec. 18, 2006, as the 22nd secretary of defense. The trip comes with less than three months before President Bush leaves office.
Before becoming secretary of defense, he was president of Texas A&M University, the nation’s seventh largest university.
He was director of central intelligence from 1991 until 1993 and is the only career officer in the CIA’s history to rise from entry-level employee to director. He was deputy director of central intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser at the White House from 1989 to 1991, for President George H.W. Bush.
Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional under six presidents. During that time, he spent nearly nine years at the National Security Council, The White House, serving four presidents of both parties.
His memoir, “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insiders Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War,” was published in 1996.
The Kansas native received a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary, a master’s in history from Indiana University and a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University.
October 22, 2008
By Henry Cuningham, Military editor
Robert M. Gates will make his first visit as secretary of defense to Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base on Thursday.
He will preside over a naturalization ceremony at Pope Air Force Base at 10 a.m. to administer the oath of citizenship to 40 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines stationed in North Carolina.
During the day, Gates will visit U.S. Army Special Operations Command units.
“Part of his visit is to look at our operations and the capabilities that Army special operations brings to the fight,” said Lt. Col. John Clearwater, a spokesman for the three-star command that oversees the Army’s Rangers and Special Forces.
Later in the afternoon, Gates will meet with 15 spouses from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division, said Lt. Col. Clarence Counts, a division spokesman. The brigade, which is based around the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, is deploying to Iraq in November.
The secretary will hold a 10-minute press conference at the Hall of Heroes off Longstreet Road on Fort Bragg at 4:30 p.m.
Gates was sworn in Dec. 18, 2006, as the 22nd secretary of defense. The trip comes with less than three months before President Bush leaves office.
Before becoming secretary of defense, he was president of Texas A&M University, the nation’s seventh largest university.
He was director of central intelligence from 1991 until 1993 and is the only career officer in the CIA’s history to rise from entry-level employee to director. He was deputy director of central intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser at the White House from 1989 to 1991, for President George H.W. Bush.
Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional under six presidents. During that time, he spent nearly nine years at the National Security Council, The White House, serving four presidents of both parties.
His memoir, “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insiders Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War,” was published in 1996.
The Kansas native received a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary, a master’s in history from Indiana University and a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University.