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Bush picks Peter Pace as military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff

ASHINGTON: President George W Bush on Friday nominated Gen Peter Pace, a Brooklyn-born Vietnam war veteran, to become the first Marine to serve as chairman of the US military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bush said Pace “knows the job well” having served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2001. “This is a huge task, even in peacetime,” Bush added. Once confirmed by the Senate, Pace, 59, would become the first Marine Corps officer to serve as chairman - the highest ranking US military officer and principal military adviser to the president and defense secretary. Pace would replace Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, 63, who is set to retire on Sept. 30. Myers has been the top US military officer since Oct. 1, 2001, just after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Bush also nominated Navy Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr., 56, a former senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to replace Pace as vice chairman. reuters

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