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Updated at 7:43 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Schofield welcomes new commander tomorrow

Advertiser Staff

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A new commander will be installed at Schofield Barracks tomorrow morning as the Army post continues a pace of repeat combat deployments to Iraq.

Maj. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. will become the new 25th Infantry Division commander. Caslen was the commandant of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

A Flying "V" ceremony honoring the departing 25th Division acting commander, Brig. Gen. J. Michael Bednarek, also will be held during the 10 a.m. change of command at Sills Field.

Subordinate commands of the 25th Division and their battalions will participate in the ceremony.

About 4,000 Schofield soldiers with the Stryker brigade are in Iraq, and as many as 7,000 more are expected to head to the country this fall and in early 2009.