(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) US President Barack Obama plans to nominate Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the current commandant of the Marine Corps and one of the president's closest military confidants, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior officials sources briefed said Monday.
Dunford served as a commander of U.S. forces and the NATO security mission in Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014.
The move cuts short Dunford's service as the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, a job he began last October. But the rapid promotion is one of several that have marked Dunford's fast-tracked military career, which saw him leap from a one-star general to four stars in about three years.
Dunford, 59, is a Boston native and holds master's degrees in government from Georgetown University and International Relations from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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