In 1986. he was promoted to major general. and. from 1987 to 1989. he served as Commander of the 9th Infantry Division in Fort Lewis. WA. In 1989. he was promoted to lieutenant general and returned to Germany to serve as the deputy commander in chief of the Seventh Army. Then. in 1991. he was selected to command Operation Provide Comfort. the relief operation that returned hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees to northern Iraq. In 1991. he became the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and the commander in chief of the U.S. European Command from June 1992 until On October 25. 1993.
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