FORT BENNING, Ga., (July 8, 2015) -- "I learned really early in my career to demand responsibility for anything that goes wrong and refuse credit for anything that goes good."

That's what Maj. Gen. James Rainey said after orders were published officially to promote him to a major general at a ceremony held June 30, outside of McGinnis-Wickam Hall.

As Rainey stood near the Follow Me statue, surrounded by friends, Family and Soldiers, he said he didn't deserve any of the credit for this promotion, or any of the success he has had in his military career.

Instead Rainey, who served as the chief of the U.S. Army Infantry School for the past year, first gave credit to God.

"I'm not always great at it, but I'm a deeply spiritual person, a Christian, and the grace of God is why I'm here. God put me up here today," he said.

Rainey thanked his Family, his wife and two daughters. He told his wife that he would not be here without her.

"It's awesome being your dad," he told his daughters.

"You've got your faith. You've got your Family. You've got your friends. Don't ever forget that," he said.

Lastly, Rainey talked about freedom and his pride in being a part of the U.S. Army.

"You've got to be free right? My daughters asked me one time why the Army flag said 1775 instead of 1776, and I got to tell them because the United States Army put the country on the map," he said.

Rainey said he thinks the U.S. has a reckoning coming as a country.

"I think we're going to fight a pretty tough war here pretty soon, and I'm glad that I'm on a team with all of you. I think what we're doing here at Fort Benning this year and next year is going to really matter. The functional training we do and the leaders we develop down at the squad and platoon and company level are what's going to carry the day for us in that war, when it comes," he said.

Rainey will assume command of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

He will take command of the division in Afghanistan.

Maj. Gen. Scott Miller thanked Rainey for the job he has done at Fort Benning and gave him a copy of The Centurian, as well as his own epaulettes.

"We are promoting a great man, not his last promotion," Miller said."He's going to command 3rd Infantry Division Command. The highlight of anybody's career."