Douglas Chalmers

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Douglas Chalmers

Douglas McKenzie Chalmers , DSO , OBE (* 1966 ) is a British Lieutenant General in the British Army who has been Deputy Chief of Defense for Military Strategy and Operations since 2018.

Life

Douglas McKenzie Chalmers completed an officer training after attending Bearwood College and joined the Royal Irish Rangers in 1984 , before he later became an officer in the line infantry regiment Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment . According to various uses as an officer and staff officer he was appointed as Colonel (Colonel) in December 2009, chief of staff of the 3rd Infantry Division (3rd Infantry Division) and remained in that post until September 2011. He then was between September 2011 and September 2013 as a brigadier general (Brigadier) Commander of the 12th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and took part in the war in Afghanistan from April to October 2012 . After he November 2013 to August 2014 Liaison Officer of the Chief of the Defense Staff , General Nick Houghton , the Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States ( US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee ) was, he functioned between September 2014 and July 2015 of assistive Chief of Army Staff for operations (Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations) .

In August 2015. Major General (Major-General) Chalmers Deputy Commanding General of III. U.S. Corps for Support (Deputy Commanding General, Support, III Corps ) and held this post until May 2017. In this position he took in Iraq and Kuwait as Deputy Commander of Strategy and Sustainability of the Combined Joint Task Force (Deputy Commander, Strategy and Sustainment, Combined Joint Task Force, Kuwait / Iraq) on the Operation Inherent Resolve part.

In June 2018 was Lieutenant General (Lieutenant General) Douglas Chalmers successor Lieutenant General Mark Carleton-Smith as deputy chief of defense staff for military strategy and operations (Deputy Chief of the Defense Staff (Military Strategy and Operations)) . So far he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 197
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 255
  3. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, p. 43
  4. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, p. 25
  5. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 452
  6. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 157
  7. ↑ MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND TRI-SERVICE SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Chalmers, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chalmers, Douglas McKenzie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Lieutenant General
DATE OF BIRTH 1966