Top Jill Biden aide to leave top job running military family assistance program
WASHINGTON — A top aide to Jill Biden for a decade who oversaw the First Lady’s initiative to support military service members and their families, is stepping down later this month, NBC News has learned. Rory Brosius will be replaced as executive director of Joining Forces by Sheila Casey, the wife of former Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey. “As a young military spouse walking into the East Wing to intern for Joining Forces in August of 2012 to joining the Biden-Harris Administration on day one to stand up Joining Forces, this has been the journey of a lifetime,” Brosius said in a message sent to the military community she’s worked with announcing her departure. Joining Forces was first launched in 2011 by Biden and Michelle Obama, who was first lady at the time, as a way of convening the public and private sector with members of the military , their families and veterans, and to support them with educational and employment resources. Biden revived the initiative when she retu...