Top Marine general hospitalized, leaving 3-star in charge

@SSG Carlos Madden
..."Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl, deputy commandant for combat development and integration and commanding general of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, started performing the duties of commandant, according to the statement. An earlier version of the statement referred to Heckl as the acting commandant, but the Corps issued a corrected statement approximately an hour later.

The Marine Corps didn’t immediately respond to a question about what the difference was between “acting commandant” and “performing the duties of commandant.”

By law, the assistant commandant typically would be the one to take over when a commandant is unable to perform the duties of the office."...