After some communication and consideration, Roosevelt made up his mind.

On May 29, Marshall announced his retirement from active duty in the U.S. military and suspended his five-star general treatment.

The next day, an emergency session of the Senate approved the president's application.

On the 31st, Roosevelt officially appointed George Marshall, a retired five-star Army general, as the new secretary of state.

On June 2, Roosevelt announced the appointment of Penson, the current military's No. 1 five-star general and commander of the Marine Corps, as the new White House chief of staff; Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the European Joint Command, Army Five-Star General Omar Bradley, as Chief of Army Staff.

On the same day, on the first day of his appointment as White House Chief of Staff Li Junhao, a joint staff meeting was held to confirm that General Jonathan Wainwright, commander-in-chief of the Far East Army, would take over as commander-in-chief of the European Joint Command.

In this way, at the age of 33, Li Junhao became the second person in the US military after the president, and he is currently the first five-star general in the military, reaching the peak of American soldiers!

In mid-June, the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided that the Army and the Army Air Force would be separated -- the Air Force would finally become independent.

At this time, the United States has already begun to embark on disarmament, and choosing this time to separate the Air Force into a single branch of the armed forces can be carried out simultaneously with the disarmament work and reduce a lot of trouble and waste.

Just when the U.S. military began to make a major adjustment, on the Eastern Battlefield on June 30, Liu Deng's army broke through the Yellow River defense line of the Kuomintang and switched to the outer line of operations, opening the prelude to the strategic offensive of the underground party!

On 18 July, the US Air Force was officially established, and five-star General Henry Arnold, former deputy chief of staff of the Army and commander of the Air Force, became the first commander of the Air Force.

On the 20th, Chief of Naval Operations and five-star Admiral Harold Stark retired;

Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Fleet, Admiral Ernest King, was transferred to the post of Chief of Naval Operations;

Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, took over as Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Fleet;

Admiral Raymond Spruance, commander-in-chief of the 5th Fleet, took over as commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet.

On the 25th, Roosevelt reassigned Arnold the rank of five-star general of the Air Force, and his original rank of five-star general of the Army was withdrawn; Wainwright was awarded the rank of five-star admiral of the Army and the rank of five-star admiral of the Navy by Nimitz.

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After participating in the retirement reception of Leahy, Hull, and Stark, and Marshall's retirement reception, Li Junhao sighed with some emotion, the White House Advisory Meeting and the Joint Staff Committee have changed by nearly a half, and he has become an "old man" in the White House, which is really amazing!

After a little calculation, he is still very satisfied with his achievements in this world, not to mention anything else, just look at the number of five-star generals awarded by the US military now, the number has reached nine, MacArthur and Eisenhower in the original history did not receive this rank, and Stark and Wainwright, who were not in the position before, became themselves!

In addition, the two admirals Halsey and Spruance are still in line, according to the principle of reciprocity required by the army and navy, if the navy wants to promote these two people, the army will also need two places, he is now the most vocal, and he needs to think about it.

In his memory, in 1947, Marshall did go to serve as secretary of state, and proposed the "Marshall Plan" to help the post-war European countries rebuild economically, which he was not interested in, but at this time he suddenly moved in his heart, and now the underground party is starting a strategic counteroffensive, and in a year it will establish a battlefield advantage, and in another year it will be ready to build a country......

After the founding of New China, everything was lacking, could he take out something from the "Marshall Plan" to support China? Well, the idea could be studied in depth!

Originally, he had lost his life goal a little during this time, and he was thinking about whether he would also retire and go home, but at this time, he found a new goal.

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On August 15, India and Pakistan became independent.

As the former commander of the Allied Indo-Burma Theater, Li Junhao naturally received an invitation to watch the ceremony, but he still refused, he felt that it had nothing to do with him, and he was even more reluctant to deal with the British.

However, as a courtesy, he approved Lieutenant General Wheeler, who succeeded him as the Indo-Burma theater, to attend the ceremony, and even called Europe to ask Stilwell if he was interested, but of course the other party didn't want to go, so forget it.

At the end of the month, Li Junhao received a good news: the X-2 jet test aircraft developed by the Bell Aircraft Company, controlled by the KING fund, was successfully tested, and the three test planes could fly stably above Mach 1.2, and the latest X-2-3 aircraft flew at a speed of Mach 1.45 and a maximum flight altitude of 21,000 meters in the test flight, which was an amazing achievement.

Ha ha! It seems that the information he provided to Bell Company before has worked, which makes Li Junhao very happy, he doesn't know how much faster this speed is than in the original history, but it must be a lot faster! He thought of the large number of sketches of airplanes he had drawn on his computer in his personal space, and now he saw the possibility of manifestation.

Because he is very busy with his work now, Li Junhao did not immediately go to Bell Company to inspect, but with a wave of his hand, he asked Xiaoyu to instruct the KING Fund to add bonuses to the development and test pilots!

There are two main tasks that keep him busy at present: first, as the actual head of the military, he is dealing with the major disarmament issues that are being carried out now, and of course there are many things in it; Second, the Air Force is independent, and when it is separated from the Army, it must take into account the funds, personnel, equipment, and bases, and what is more important is that after the Air Force becomes independent, the setting up of its combat functions is mainly the division of responsibilities with the aviation of the Army and the Navy.

His current positions include White House Chief of Staff, Commander of the Navy and Army, Director of National Intelligence, Director of the CIA, and Assistant Attorney General, each of which is not easy, which makes him start to consider assigning the latter two tasks to someone else.

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On September 5, after communicating with Roosevelt, Li Junhao handed over the positions of CIA director and assistant attorney general, but his successor was his loyal subordinate - Donovan took over the CIA director; The Assistant Attorney General was succeeded by Zheng Pingru.

The position of assistant prosecutor general responsible for supervising the operation of the FBI, originally he wanted to arrange for Wang Renqiang to take over, but this guy said that he preferred to be in charge of directly accusing the detectives of the operation, rather than the assistant prosecutor general of a civilian nature, and now Zheng Pingru has been trained extremely capable and suitable for the upper-level system in the United States, so let her go!

After such an adjustment, Li Junhao lost two positions, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, many of the documents that had to be signed by him before are now ignored, just need to look at the situation briefings of his subordinates every once in a while! Of course, this does not mean that his control over the two departments has decreased, on the contrary, it has made his subordinates see the possibility of promotion, and he has received more!

(End of chapter)