Milford H. Beagle Jr. is a

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who serves as commanding general of the

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and commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College since 4 October 2022. He served as the commanding general of the

10th Mountain Division The 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) is a light infantry division (military), division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York. Formerly designated as a mountain warfare unit, the division was the only one of its size in ...

and

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from 12 July 2021 to 9 September 2022. Beagle previously served as the 51st commanding general of the United States Army Training Center at Fort Jackson from 22 June 2018 to 18 June 2021. He has also served as deputy commanding general for support of the

from 2017 to 2018 and commander of the 193rd Infantry Brigade from 2013 to 2016. The great-grandson of

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veteran Walter Beagles, Beagle is the second African American to command the 10th Mountain Division since

Lloyd Austin Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a retired United States Army four-star General (United States), general who served as the 28th United States Secretary of Defense, United States secretary of defense from 2021 to 2025. Before ...

's tenure from 2003 to 2005. He is a native of Enoree, South Carolina, and is married to the former Pamela Jones of

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, with whom he has two sons. He received his commission from the

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program at the

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, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice, later earning a Master of Science degree in adult education from

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and a Master of Science degree in advanced military studies from the

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References

https://www.wwnytv.com/2022/05/26/general-beagle-promoted-set-leave-fort-drum-near-future/

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