Austin Eugene Renforth is a retired

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major general who last served as the Commanding General of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command and

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. He also served as the acting Chief of Staff of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command. Renforth enlisted in the

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in 1982 and was appointed to the

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in 1984. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a

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degree in mathematics in 1988.

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