U.S. Army North commander Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, who oversaw missions at critical junctures in Iraq and Afghanistan, will retire from the Army this year.
He'll leave San Antonio for his native Georgia, where he'll become president of Georgia Military College.
“We have made some absolutely wonderful friends and relationships that will endure well beyond our departure,” Caldwell said in a letter revealing his retirement from Army North, also known to many here as the 5th U.S. Army.
A former 82nd Airborne Division commander, he oversaw the dramatic growth of Afghan security forces from 2009 to 2011. Those forces in his tenure went from 190,000 soldiers and police to about 330,000.
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