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Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 500 × 524 pixels. ... English: Lieutenant Colonel rank insignia for the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
The rank of lieutenant colonel has existed in the British Army since at least the 16th century and was used in both American colonial militia and colonial regular regiments. [5] The Continental Army continued the British and colonial use of the rank of lieutenant colonel, [6] as the second-in-command to a colonel commanding a regiment. [7]
Eight generals were promoted to the rank and title "General of the Army" (Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold, and Omar Bradley), while two generals were promoted to the higher rank and title of "General of the Armies of the United States ...
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The current Air Force officer rank names and insignia were taken from the Army upon the establishment of the Air Force as a separate service in 1947. The insignia have been essentially unchanged since then, except for a brief period during the 1990s, when then-Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill A. McPeak redesigned the service dress uniform.
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