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Ranking Marine Corps official leads delegation to Saipan
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Posted on Dec 01 2011
A top military official will lead a delegation that would visit Saipan for the first time tomorrow.
Brig. Gen. Daniel D. Yoo, Commanding General for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Western Recruiting Region, is expected to arrive today as part of a seven-member team who will meet with Mayor Donald G. Flores, according to Sgt. Gregorio Comeo.
“This is their first visit on Saipan and they are here for just one day,” Comeo told Saipan Tribune in a phone interview.
Comeo, U.S. Marines recruiting officer for the CNMI, the Philippines, and Japan, said the team’s visit is part of an initiative to see recruiting stations in the entire Pacific in support of recruitment efforts in the region.
At present, the U.S. Marines Recruiting Office has four new recruits from Saipan, Tinian, and Rota.
Yoo, who was commissioned in March 1985 as a second lieutenant after completion of Officer Candidate School, relieved Maj. Gen. Ronald L. Bailey in a change of command ceremony held on June 30 at the commanding general’s lawn in San Diego, California.
Born on July 4, 1962 in Seoul, Korea, Yoo received a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in 1985 and is a Marine Combatant Diver, a Military Freefall Parachutist, and a graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger Schoo.
Yoo was assigned as the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City in September 2010.
