Joseph Francis Dunford Jr. is the CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf
Official portrait, 2015
Dunford speaks with 9th Main Jet Base Commander Air Brig. Gen. Kemal Turan before departing Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, 2016.
Dunford, right, is sworn in as the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by outgoing chairman Martin Dempsey, left, in a change of responsibility ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall on 25 September 2015
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, meets with Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo, Commander-in-Chief, Indonesian National Armed Forces, at the Pentagon, 18 February 2016
Mark Alexander Milley is a retired United States Army general who served as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023. He had previously served as the 39th chief of staff of the
Joseph Dunford
…China. Dunford stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 30 September 2019, declining interviews and praising his successor, General Mark A. Milley. Dunford and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis had favored Air Force chief of staff General David L. Goldfein as Dunford's successor, but Milley was…
Milley in the Princeton University yearbook, 1980
General Richard A. Cody administers the oath of office upon Milley's promotion to brigadier general in February 2008.
Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh administers the oath of office to incoming Army chief of staff Milley during the change of responsibility ceremony on August 14, 2015.