May 27, 2012
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Head of UK military to leave job early
14 June 2010 / AP, LONDON
The British government said Sunday it is shuffling its top military team as it grapples with the unpopular conflict in Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Liam Fox said the head of the armed forces, Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, will leave his job in the autumn, about six months early. His term had not been due to end until April 2011. The top civilian defense official will leave at the same time. Fox told the Sunday Times newspaper that the two men had been in their jobs “longer than they needed to be.” Stirrup was appointed in 2006 by the Labour government, which lost power in May to a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday the two men were not being punished for the rising death toll in Afghanistan. He told the BBC they were leaving at “a natural time to have a change of personnel.”
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