RAYMOND T. ODIERNO

In a joint statement, the president and first lady Jill Biden recalled that Odierno spoke at the funeral of their son Beau​, who served under Odierno in Iraq and died of brain cancer in 2015.

The family of Raymond T.

Raymond T. Odierno, a retired Army general who commanded American and coalition forces in Iraq at the height of the war and capped a 39-year career by serving as the Army's chief of staff, has died, his family said Saturday. Odierno died Friday; the family declined to say where. A native of Rockaway, New Jersey, Odierno graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1976 with a commission in field artillery.