Reason for Batiste's appointment to newly created post is unclear
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http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28816The U.S. military still isn’t saying why a second deputy commander slot has been created at the Heidelberg-based V Corps, three days after the Pentagon announced that Maj. Gen. John Batiste would fill that position.
Batiste, the current 1st Infantry Division commander, is the second deputy commander appointed to V Corps in the past month. The corps, which oversees 42,000 of the 62,000 soldiers based in Europe, hosted a ceremony April 6 introducing Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Hahn as its new second-in-command.
But on Friday, the Pentagon announced Batiste had been appointed to the same slot. At the time, Pentagon officials referred further questions to the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart.
On Monday, a EUCOM spokeswoman referred further questions to U.S. Army Europe, which referred the inquiry to V Corps.
When contacted Monday, V Corps spokeswoman Hilde Patton said she had nothing further to add to comments made Saturday by another corps spokesman, Lt. Col. Brian McNerney.
McNerney on Saturday said that, “Maj. Gen. Batiste is obviously very well qualified. We look forward to him joining the corps team.”