President Obama has nominated Army Lt. Gen. Charles Jacoby for his fourth star for assignment as commander of NORAD and US Northern Command at Peterson AFB, Colo., announced the Pentagon Tuesday. Jacoby would replace Adm. James Winnefeld, who’s been tapped to be the Joint Chiefs’ vice chairman. Jacoby is currently the Joint Staff’s director of strategic plans and policy.
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.