How US Army Europe’s outgoing general got the Pentagon’s attention
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By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: October 17, 2017
STUTTGART, Germany — The resources didn’t match the mission, and it gnawed at Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges during the early days of his tenure commanding U.S. Army Europe, which comes to an end Friday.
A message, Hodges thought, needed to be delivered to policymakers that his command of 30,000 soldiers was stretched thin.
“That whole ‘make 30,000 soldiers look like 300,000’ — that was intended for the Pentagon,†said Hodges.
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