Senate Approves Pace, Giambastiani for Top Military Posts

By Jason Sherman / July 18, 2005 at 5:00 AM
The Senate late last week approved the nominations of Gen. Peter Pace and Adm. Edmund Giambastiani to assume the Pentagon's No. 1 and No. 2 uniformed billets. The Senate on July 15 approved the nominations by voice vote along with a handful of other senior military appointments, including Vice Adm. Albert Calland to be deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, according to the Congressional Record . Pace, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is set to...

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