Martin Dempsey to speak at NACDS Annual Meeting

Retired U.S. Army General and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey will speak during the 2016 National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Annual Meeting’s Business Program on April 19, in Palm Beach, Florida.

NACDS also announced that former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner will deliver the keynote address during the Business Program on April 17.

“NACDS members are going to hear from the very leader and patriot whom the President and Secretary of Defense heard from, as recently as a few months ago, on the most pressing national security topics,” NACDS President and CEO Steven C. Anderson said. “With former Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey and former House Speaker John Boehner on the program, the NACDS Annual Meeting will present the best-qualified and most-timely speakers on issues continuing to unfold in the national and international arenas.”

Gen. Dempsey, who concluded his 41 years of military service and his tenure as chairman in September, is a 1974 graduate of the United States Military Academy. His higher education includes Master of Arts degrees from three institutions: from Duke in Literature, from the Army Command & General Staff College in Military Science, and from the National War College in National Security Strategy.

During his Army service, Gen. Dempsey led a Cavalry Troop, a Tank Battalion, a Cavalry Regiment, a Tank Division, and United States Central Command, where he was responsible for strengthening U.S. interests in the Middle East and South Asia.

In 2015, Gen. Dempsey was named one of the “100 most influential leaders in the world” by TIME magazine.