 Barrons ' position , as of February 2011 , was as Assistant Chief of the General Staff . In May 2011 he became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff ( Operations ) in the rank of lieutenant general . On 24 January 2013 it was announced that he was to be appointed Commander Joint Forces Command in April 2013 . As of 2015 , Barrons was paid a salary of between £ 175 @,@ 000 and £ 179 @,@ 999 by the department , making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time . In April 2016 , he handed over command of Joint Forces Command to General Sir Christopher Deverell . 
