Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Incumbent deputy chief aide-de-camp to President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Major General Lee Ching-jan (李慶然), has been tapped as Tsai's new chief aide-de-camp, a military source told CNA on Monday.
Lee will assume that post on March 1 when he will be officially promoted to a lieutenant general, which is a two-star general in Taiwan, to replace his predecessor, Army Lieutenant General Lu Kun-hsiu (呂坤修), who will become the new commander of the Eighth Army Corps, the unnamed source added.
The Eighth Army Corps is responsible for guarding southern Taiwan's Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Pingtung County.
Lee is set to become the fifth aide-de-camp to the president under Tsai's presidency since May 2016 and the first one from the Air Force. The previous four comprised one from the Navy and three from the Army.
The aide-de-camp is a military officer who serves the president as an advisor and assistant.
The latest reshuffle is part of a larger senior military personnel reshuffle and promotion within the nation's armed forces that will take effect next month.
The promotions of senior military personnel in Taiwan used to be carried out twice a year but are now done at monthly events after the Legislature made a revision to the relevant law in May 2022.
However, the military is still only holding a conferral ceremony twice a year, in June and December.
