President Trump’s administration nominated a South Shore native for the second-highest put up within the army.
Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney, a Weymouth native, has been nominated to function the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers on the Pentagon. He would change U.S. Navy Adm. Christopher W. Grady, who has held the put up since Dec. 20, 2021. Mahoney at present serves because the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, a place he has held since Nov. 3, 2023.
Mahoney, at present headlined a listing of “Secretary of Defense General Officer Announcements” on Friday that additionally included six different Marine normal promotions.
The four-star normal previously held command positions on the squadron, group and wing ranges, in accordance with his official Division of Protection biography. Earlier than his present place as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, he served as deputy commandant for Packages and Sources at Marine headquarters, because the deputy commander of Marine forces within the Pacific and of U.S. forces in Japan, as director of Technique and Plans at headquarters, and as commanding normal of the third Marine Plane Wing.
Mahoney accomplished fundamental coaching and the infantry officer’s course at Quantico, Virginia, in 1988, in accordance with the DOD biography. The seasoned pilot has amassed greater than 5,000 flight hours within the A-6, F-5, F-18, and the F-35, with coaching and {qualifications} earned in Florida and Texas. He deployed to the Indo-Pacific with the Marine All Climate Assault Squadron 224, VMA (AW)-224 — often known as “The Bengals” — with further deployments to Italy and Iraq whereas primarily based in South Carolina and California.
His formal schooling contains research on the Australian Command and Workers Faculty and the Air Warfare Faculty at Maxwell Air Power Base, and he holds grasp’s levels from the College of Canberra, Australia, and the Air College.
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