It’s at Fort McNair at 6 p.m. and I’ll be covering it for Danger Room. Marc Ambinder and Tom Ricks have some good advance thoughts on Gen. McChrystal’s interrupted career. According to Marc, McChrystal turned down a lucrative consulting offer from Booz Allen.

More complete thoughts will come after the ceremony. But whether you were a supporter or an opponent of the strategy in Afghanistan, it can’t provide any comfort that a Rolling Stone profile proved to be the reason why he lost his command, as opposed to his substantive performance.