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Armed Forces - a2a2 - British Army - Command and Organisation - Chief of the General Staff - General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC

COMMAND AND ORGANISATION

CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF


Chief of The General Staff

General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC

Chief of The General Staff - General Sir Richard Dannatt KCB CBE MC

General Sir Richard Dannatt was commissioned into The Green Howards from Sandhurst in 1971 and has served with 1st Battalion The Green Howards in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany. He commanded the Battalion in the Airmobile role from 1989 – 1991. In tours away from Regimental Duty he has been a Company instructor at Sandhurst, Chief of Staff of the 20th Armoured Brigade, Military Assistant to the Minister of State for the Armed Forces and Colonel Higher Command and Staff Course/Doctrine at the Staff College.

From 1994-1996 he commanded 4th Armoured Brigade. During this period he was deployed from Germany to Bosnia as Commander Sector South West in the final months of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and then commanding his Brigade at the start of the Implementation Force (IFOR) with Multinational Division (South West). From 1996-1998 he was Director of Defence Programmes in the Ministry of Defence. He took command of 3rd (United Kingdom) Division in January 1999, and served that year in Kosovo as Commander British Forces. In November 2000 he was appointed Deputy Commander Operations of the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia. He was the Assistant Chief of the General Staff in the UK Ministry of Defence from April 2001 to October 2002, and assumed the command of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps on the 15th January 2003. In March 2005 he was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief Land Command and he assumed the appointment of Chief of the General Staff on 29 August 2005.

In addition to his current appointment, General Sir Richard Dannatt is Colonel Commandant of The King’s Division, The Royal Military Police and Army Air Corps. He is President of the Army Rifle Association, and the Soldier’s and Airmen’s Scripture Readers Association, and Vice President of The Officers' Christian Union.

Note; General Sir Richard Dannatt’s predecessor as CGS was General Sir Mike Jackson MBE CBE CB KCB DSO ADC Gen.
 

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