Langley will take command of the US Africa Command, which oversees the nation’s military presence in Africa.
Langley will take command of the US Africa Command, which oversees the nation's military presence in Africa, in a change of command ceremony at its Germany headquarters on Monday. Speaking after the ceremony at Marine Barracks in Washington, DC, Langley said he was"humbled and honored for the opportunity to take on the stewardship of command of AFRICOM" as a four-star general. "But the milestone and what it means to the Corps is quite essential.
Branch, the first commissioned Black Marine, and the Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans to enlist in the Marines who trained at a segregated facility in Montford Point, North Carolina.He also spoke of the importance of diversity in the military to"maintain a decisive advantage over our strategic competitors."The Marine Corps had refused to recruit African Americans and other minorities until a 1941 executive order signed by President Franklin D.
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