Army Chief of Staff Shinseki Retires
From Times Wire Reports
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki ended a career that spanned five decades, from Vietnam, where combat cost him part of a foot, to the Pentagon, where he fought bureaucratic wars.
The White House has not nominated a successor, but officials have said it would be Peter Jan Schoomaker, who retired from the Army in 2000.
In his farewell at Ft. Myer, Shinseki made no mention of his boss, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, with whom he had a sometimes-tense relationship.
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