At 60, Ray Odierno may be an old soldier. But he has yet to fade away. He’s now serving as the Army’s top officer, following three senior assignments in Iraq between 2003 and 2010. Few, if any, commanders wearing a U.S. military uniform have spent as much time as the Army’s 38th chief of staff trying to get the nation’s post-9/11 wars right. Odierno, 2003 Getty Images So there he was over breakfast with reporters Friday, trying to explain the U.S.