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DEPUTY ARMY COMMANDER TO BE PROMOTED TO DEPUTY CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF

ROC Central News Agency

2006-02-14 22:59:48

    Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) Lt. Gen. Chao Shi-chang, deputy commander of Army Command Headquarters, will be promoted to deputy chief of the General Staff, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced Tuesday.

    The promotion will take effect Feb. 16, when Chao will simultaneously be promoted to the rank of general, the ministry said.

    Chao will fill the post to be left vacant by Gen. Tseng Chin-ling, who will be transferred to serve as president of National Defense University.

    Chao's promotion and Tseng's transfer are part of an unprecedented large-scale military reshuffle in which the top commanders of the three branches of the armed forces will all be replaced.

    According to a Feb. 10 MND announcement, Gen. Chu Kai-sheng, commanding general of the Army Command Headquarters, will replace Hou Shou-yeh as vice minister of national defense.

    Hou will be transferred to serve as a strategy adviser to the president, the ministry said.

    Meanwhile, Gen. Hu Chen-pu, director of the MND's Political Warfare Department, will succeed Chu as army commanding general. The post to be left vacant by Hu's promotion will be filled by Lt. Gen. Wu Ta-peng, commander of the defense command on the outlying island of Kinmen. Wu will simultaneously be promoted to the rank of general.

    The reshuffle will also include replacement of the top commanders of the two other branches of the armed forces. Adm. Chen Pang-chih, commanding admiral of Navy Command Headquarters, will become a strategy adviser to the president and the post to be left vacant by his transfer will be taken over by Adm. Lin Chen-yi, current deputy chief of the General Staff.

    Vice Adm. Wang Li-shen, deputy chief of Navy Command Headquarters, will be promoted to the rank of admiral and take over the post of deputy chief of the General Staff.

    Lt. Gen. Shen Kuo-chen, current deputy commanding general of Air Force Command Headquarters, will replace Gen. Liu Kuei-li as the new air force commanding general. Shen will also be promoted to the rank of general and Liu will be named a strategy adviser to the president.

    Lt. Gen. Chi Lin-lien, director of the Joint Operations Training and Code of Conduct Development Office at General Staff Headquarters, will be promoted to the rank of marine corps general and replace Gen. Tai Po-tei as commander at the Combined Logistics Command. Tai will serve as a strategy adviser to the president.

    National Defense University President Gen. Fei Hung-po will be transferred to serve as a strategy adviser to the president and his post will be taken over by Gen. Tseng Chin-ling, deputy chief of the General Staff.

    All the personnel changes will take effect Feb. 16, the ministry said.

    The major military reshuffle is arranged in line with the spirit of the revised Defense Ministry Organic Law, which requires restructuring and streamlining of military units with a view to establishing an elite deterrent force in the face of China's military threat, MND officials said.

(By Sofia Wu)

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