Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, brother of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, has been named commander of the U.S. Army’s Pacific Region.
Pentagon officials recently announced that Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, brother of former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, has been appointed commander of the U.S. Army Pacific Region.
The announcement was made Jan. 25 by the U.S. Department of Defense Chief of Staff of the Army as part of a series of appointments to general officer positions.
Charles Flynn, who had been approved as a four-star general, has been serving as deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Army G-3/5/7. Under his new assignment, Lt. Gen. Flynn will be stationed at U.S. Army Pacific Command headquarters in Fort Shafter, Hawaii, where he will serve as commander.
U.S. Army Pacific Command, the land component of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, which oversees and controls land operations within the Indo-Pacific region, except for the Korean Peninsula.
As seen on Lt. Gen. Flynn’s resume, in recent years he served as commander of the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, after which he became deputy commander of the U.S. Army Pacific Command.
Lt. Gen. Flynn is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College, where he earned a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies. He also earned a master’s degree in joint warfighting programs from National Defense University (NDU). Lieutenant General Flynn’s awards and honors also include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Award, the Bronze Star and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
Lt. Gen. Flynn and other Pentagon staff members have been under scrutiny in recent days for National Guard deployments to the Capitol because of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Washington City officials and Capitol Hill police have accused the Pentagon of being too slow to send National Guard troops to help stop the riot.”
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