Overview
- The Senate approved LaNeve by unanimous consent on Tuesday, setting him to succeed Gen. James Mingus, who has served as vice chief since January 2024.
- LaNeve currently serves as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior military assistant, a role Hegseth cited in praising him as a “generational leader.”
- The Army has not provided timing for LaNeve’s assumption of duties or his elevation to four-star rank, and it did not comment when asked.
- LaNeve’s recent posts include commanding Eighth Army in South Korea and the 82nd Airborne Division, with earlier leadership at the 7th Army Training Command in Germany.
- Mingus helped steer the Army Transformation Initiative and the Next Generation Command and Control program, key modernization efforts he oversaw as vice chief.