Coverage of UMaine Alumnus’ Nomination to Adjutant General
Col. James Campbell, a Maine Army National Guard member who received a master’s and a Ph.D. in history at UMaine has been nominated by Gov. Paul LePage to become Maine’s new adjutant general, according to a report in the Portland Press Herald. The governor said in a statement that Campbell, who also served as executive director of the University of Maine Army Reserve Training Corps and commander of the 11th Civil Support Team in Waterville, has distinguished himself as a scholar and a soldier. Campbell has served in Afghanistan and currently works at the United States Central Command in Tampa, Fla. Legislative approval is expected. The Bangor Daily News also carried a report.
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