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Jean-Marc Lanthier, is a retired

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officer who served as

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from July 2018 to July 2019. He was Vice Chief of the Defence Staff from July 2019 to his announcement of retiring in March 2020.

Military career

Lanthier was commissioned as an armoured officer in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989 and after graduating from the

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. He became commanding officer of the

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and went on to be commander of

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. After that he became Deputy Commanding General Sustainment I Corps, a unit of the

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, in June 2011, Commander of

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in July 2013, and Commander

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in July 2014, before becoming Chief of Programme in April 2017. Lanthier was appointed

on 16 July 2018. A year later, on 18 July 2019, he succeeded Lieutenant General

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as Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.

Honours and decorations

Source:

CAN Order of Military Merit Commander ribbon

CAN Canadian Forces Decoration ribbon with one bar

References

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