Maj. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., the commandant of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., has been named as the commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks.

No change of command date has been set, the Army said.

Brig. Gen. John M. Bednarek, who has been serving as the acting commanding general at Schofield, will be assigned as the commanding general of the First Army Division East at Fort Meade, Md., the Army said.

Caslen was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant at West Point in 1975.

According to his biography, Caslen was a battalion executive officer during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

He served in several faculty positions at West Point, including football coach. He also previously commanded the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, a Hawai'i-based unit.

Caslen also served as chief of staff of Coalition Joint Task Force Mountain at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.

Before being named as commandant of cadets at West Point, Caslen was deputy director for the war on terrorism within the strategic plans and policy directorate of the Joint Staff.

Caslen will oversee a division that will continue to have large numbers of soldiers deployed to Iraq. The Stryker brigade of about 4,000 soldiers will be in Iraq until early 2009.

The 3rd Brigade at Schofield, division headquarters, and aviation brigade — totaling more than 7,000 additional soldiers — is expected to deploy to Iraq from October through early next year.