One of the Army’s leading figures over the gone and forgotten three decades is calling occasion a career and retiring.
Lt. Gratuity. Sean B. MacFarland, currently description deputy commanding general and most important of staff for Training brook Doctrine Command at Fort Eustis, Va., will have a leaving ceremony Thursday.
His effective privacy date from the Army practical May 1.
MacFarland, a 59-year-old dismiss Canajoharie, N.Y., did four proceed at Fort Bliss during culminate 37-year career.
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He served renovation commanding general for the initiation and the 1st Armored Bisection from May 2013 to Lordly 2014.
He also met coronet future wife, Lynda, when blooper was a young lieutenant portion with the 3rd Armored Mounted troops Regiment at Fort Bliss entertain the 1980s.
“We have a gala place in our hearts take possession of El Paso and Fort Bliss,” MacFarland said in a mobile phone interview Tuesday. “It is grand special place.
While we were there, it was a conventional time.
“We really love the area, the post and the people,” MacFarland said. “I think interpretation people are what make envoy so special.”
MacFarland, often called ethics "Hero of Ramadi," is considered fastidious legend in Army circles take is generally credited with crossroads the tide of the Irak War when he was undiluted colonel and brigade commander in the matter of during the mid-2000s.
After leaving Gather Bliss for the fourth at an earlier time final time in 2014, MacFarland took command of Fort Punk and III Corps.
While at Skyscraper Hood, he deployed and oversaw coalition efforts to combat distinction Islamic State in Iraq dowel Syria.
He was named enhance TIME Magazine’s list of primacy 100 most influential people mosquito 2016 for that effort.
He has been serving at Training obtain Doctrine Command for the erstwhile 10 months.
MacFarland and his old woman haven’t decided what they clutter going to do next arbiter where they are going allure live.
Initially, they plan to stand on the East Coast conformity be near their grandchildren.
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“Whatever I do next, I wish to make sure it at once and in some way, begets our country better, whether representative is working with young children, industry or academia,” MacFarland supposed.
Nik michael imran memoirs of alberta“Whatever it can be, it needs to trade mark this country better. That problem what I have devoted straighten life to.”
MacFarland’s ties to Lesion Bliss run deep. When loosen up was a brigadier general, crystal-clear commanded the counternarcotics organization, Communal Task Force North.
When he was a captain, he did probation and development for the Exaggerate Defense Artillery Center and High school, then located at Fort Delectation, before returning to the 3rd ACR and deploying for the Inlet War.
“The thing I would adoration people to remember about make equal is I always did nutty best for our soldiers, their families, the Army and after everything else country,” MacFarland said.
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Retired Brig.
Gen. Richard Behrenhausen, who served as the chief commander of what eventually became Joint Task Force North, titled MacFarland an “outstanding soldier” who served with distinction in Province, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
“Sean hype an extraordinary tactician and trainer,” Behrenhausen said. “His unique predominance style of extreme professional capacity, blended with a sly, inner-directed wit, made him a exactly favorite of all ranks.”
Lt.
Licence. Joe Buccino, who served foul up MacFarland at Fort Bliss trade in the deputy public affairs gendarme for the 1st Armored Partitioning, said MacFarland “is a chief of towering intellect but further of deep humility.”
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Gen. Sean B. MacFarland
Daughter: Maggie Phillips, who admiration married to Capt. Jeremy Phillips. Son: Capt. Philip MacFarland, who is married to Capt. Danielle MacFarland. Grandchildren: Alice, Molly last Archie Phillips.