Farewell-Welcome Ceremony: Third Infantry Division Senior Command Staff
On Wednesday morning, July 14, 2021, at Cashe Garden, Fort Stewart soldiers, civilians, and Hinesville/Savannah community members said farewell to MG Hubert Cottereau, DCG for Readiness, and COL Michael Adams, Third ID Chief of Staff. At the same time, welcoming the Division’s new DCG for maneuver, BG Jasper Jeffers.
Conducting the dual ceremony was recently-appointed Third Infantry Division Commander, MG Charles Costanza. MG Cottereau served this past year with the Third ID as a part of an on-going senior officer exchange program with the French Army. Highly-regarded by all those he served with here, he returns home to France this weekend to take command of a French Army division.
COL Adams has served with the Third ID in a number of positions, for a cumulative total of eleven years, most recently as the Division’s Chief of Staff, under former Commanding General Antonio Aguto. COL Adams will continue that assignment, working now with newly-promoted LTG Aguto as his Chief of Staff for First Army at the Rock Island Arsenal in Northern Illinois.
BG Jasper Jeffers is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and served here at Hunter early on as a Platoon Leader and XO for 1st Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment. He has held a number of increasing responsibility Ranger and Special Operations command assignments, and deployments, throughout his Army career. We welcome BG Jeffers as the Third ID’s Deputy Commanding General of Maneuver.