Lieutenant General Mark Phillip Hertling, is the Commanding General, US Army Europe and Seventh Army. In that role, he is the commander of the approximately 42,000 U.S. Army forces assigned to Europe, and he is the Army Component Commander of U.S. European Command. Click the link to see his TEDx Mid-Atlantic 2012 talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWN13pKVp9s