Look who’s running the 1st Armored

Here is an interesting note from commenter “Tintin”:

. . . the division has three deputy CGs instead of two, which is unorthodox. More interesting is the background of all those generals. One of the three DCGs has a traditional background — BG Ralph Baker spent some time in light units but his big Iraq assignment was as commander of 2/1 AD.

The others are more interesting. The CG, MG Terry Wolff, spent most of his career in normal command assignments, including taking 2nd ACR to Iraq in 2003, but more recently he commanded the CMATT at MNSTC-I. The second DCG, BG Kevin Mangum, who is in charge of U.S. troops in western Baghdad, is a career special operations aviator (he commanded the 160th SOAR) who also used to run the SOF advisory section of MNSTC-I — very out of the ordinary. The third DCG is BG Kenneth Tovo, a career SF officer — he commanded at every level in SF, including commanding 10th Group and CJSOTF-AP on multiple tours, and he used to be the senior SOF officer on the MNF-I staff.

Even two years ago, a command team like that would probably have been completely impossible for 1st AD, don’t you think?