The Third Army located at Shaw Air Force Base is welcoming its new command sergeant major at a ceremony that also bids farewell to its current senior enlisted adviser.
/ Fraendy Clervaud
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (WACH, AP) -- The Third Army located at Shaw Air Force Base is welcoming its new command sergeant major at a ceremony that also bids farewell to its current senior enlisted adviser.
Third Army spokesman Maj. Charles Barrett says Friday's ceremony marks the passage of responsibility from Command Sgt. Maj. John Fourhman to Command Sgt. Maj. Stephan Frennier.
Fourhman took his position in 2008, and will retire after 36 years of service upon completion of the event.
Frennier comes to Third Army after serving as the senior enlisted adviser to the deputy commanding general for training with U.S. forces in Iraq.
Third Army is responsible for sustaining U.S. forces in the Central Command area of responsibility, which encompasses 20 nations across the Mideast and western Asia.
"The Third Army has about 38,000 people who are deployed all the time, we run five different command posts, and this headquarters will be the heart and soul of that," Lt. Gen. William Webster said at the opening of the Third Army's headquarters in May.
The Third Army's move to Sumter brought 1,200 military personnel and their families from Atlanta's Fort McPherson. The Third Army handles logistics for Army forces from Iraq to Afghanistan. The move puts them alongside the Ninth Air Force, which is in charge of all air forces in the region.
The Pentagon ordered the closure of Fort McPherson in Atlanta and the shift to Shaw in 2005 as part of a national reshuffling of military bases.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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