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September 14, 2007 Gen. Pace Pops By Southcom To Say Goodbye
By Carol Rosenberg
On a farewell tour from four decades of service, Marine Gen. Peter Pace stopped in at the Pentagon's U.S. Southern Command on Friday -- and handed out commemorative coins in a meet and greet event.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff paid his farewell visit to the estimated 1,300 civilian and military men and women at the Doral headquarters, where he served as commander in 2000 until just after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
A 1967 Naval Academy graduate, Pace retires from the job on Oct. 1.
Southcom disclosed the visit in a news release accompanied by two photographs Friday afternoon.
Pace passed through Miami on his return from a trip to Colombia where, Southcom said, he was honored by President Alvaro Uribe and senior military leaders with ``the Cross of Boyaca, the highest military award the country can bestow on a Colombian or foreign officer.''
In Miami, he handed out the commemorative coins, part of a long established ritual of senior officers rewarding more junior officers as well as enlisted servicemen and women.
''To be personally coined by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a unique honor very few people get a chance to experience,'' said Navy Adm. James Stavridis, the current Southcom command. ``It is a gesture that will undoubtedly be remembered by the men and women who experienced it for many years.''
September 14, 2007 Gen. Pace Pops By Southcom To Say Goodbye
By Carol Rosenberg
On a farewell tour from four decades of service, Marine Gen. Peter Pace stopped in at the Pentagon's U.S. Southern Command on Friday -- and handed out commemorative coins in a meet and greet event.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff paid his farewell visit to the estimated 1,300 civilian and military men and women at the Doral headquarters, where he served as commander in 2000 until just after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
A 1967 Naval Academy graduate, Pace retires from the job on Oct. 1.
Southcom disclosed the visit in a news release accompanied by two photographs Friday afternoon.
Pace passed through Miami on his return from a trip to Colombia where, Southcom said, he was honored by President Alvaro Uribe and senior military leaders with ``the Cross of Boyaca, the highest military award the country can bestow on a Colombian or foreign officer.''
In Miami, he handed out the commemorative coins, part of a long established ritual of senior officers rewarding more junior officers as well as enlisted servicemen and women.
''To be personally coined by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a unique honor very few people get a chance to experience,'' said Navy Adm. James Stavridis, the current Southcom command. ``It is a gesture that will undoubtedly be remembered by the men and women who experienced it for many years.''