Maj. Gen. Michael C. Wehr on April 14 was named as the deputy chief of engineers and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Leading its Mississippi Valley Division since 2014, he now succeeds Maj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens as Corps second in command. Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite was named commanding general in 2016. Replacing Wehr is Maj. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser, who led the Combined Security Transition Command in Afghanistan.
In another key appointment, Maj. Gen. Anthony C. Funkhouser becomes deputy commanding general for military and international operations. He now is commander of the Army Center for Initial Military Training, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia. John Doyle, special counsel with law and lobbying firm Jones Walker LLP, says Wehr and Funkhouser are Corps “up-and-comers.”