McQuistion received a final salute<\/a> to cap her 35-year career.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMcQuistion arrived in Huntsville in 2012 to become the deputy commanding general of the Army Material Command. Earlier, she served as the commanding general of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command in Rock Island, Illinois. She was also the commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command for U.S. Army-Europe and Seventh Army in Kaiserslautern, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLt. Gen. Patricia McQuistion, deputy commander of the Army Material Command, has retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,12,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1351],"class_list":["post-27204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"AVYFZIYHFJBGNNQLZXMSLIY3V4","arc_canonical_url":"\/education-transition\/jobs\/2015\/04\/11\/deputy-commander-of-army-material-command-retires\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n
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