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Garrett. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army officials at the General Officer Management Office did not immediately respond to a query from Army Times asking where Garrett is slated to go next in his career. Garrett has led FORSCOM since 2019. Prior to that, he was the commanding general of U.S. Army Central. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORSCOM is the largest Army command. It\u2019s charged with generating trained and ready Army units to U.S. combatant commanders around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poppas last served as the director for the Joint Staff. There, he assisted the chairman in his role as advisor to the president and secretary of defense. Prior to assuming that position, Poppas served as director for operations (J3) on the Joint Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poppas was commissioned through the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1988. 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