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He was commissioned as an infantry officer from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1988 and served in the Gulf War, with subsequent deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the current vice chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Christopher LaNeve, will replace George on an interim basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parnell asserted that LaNeve is \u201ca battle-tested leader with decades of operational experience and is completely trusted by Secretary Hegseth to carry out the vision of this administration without fault.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Defense said it \u201chas nothing further to provide at the moment.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hegseth on Thursday also removed Gen. David Horne, a former Army Ranger who had been overseeing the Army\u2019s Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. 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