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Major general toolan biography books
Gen. John Toolan Jr. is one of the few Marine officers who beams broadly in one of his official portraits.
Toolan doesn’t have to try to look tough. The new commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force headquartered at Camp Pendleton speaks in a low, gravelly voice.
He stands well over six feet tall, with a sinewy build and teeth-baring grimace that should be on a Marine Corps recruiting poster.
At 58, his buzz cut is mostly white. But Toolan can still toss a Marine over his shoulders and carry him to safety, as he demonstrated during a combat fitness test at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
in 2010 before heading off to war.
Toolan has the combat-tested resume to match his physique. The Gulf War veteran was preparing to retire as a colonel, but Gen. James Mattis convinced him to join his staff as the 1st Marine Division prepared to lead U.S.
troops into another Iraq war.
In March 2003, Mattis fired a colonel who bogged down during heavy fighting on the mechanized march