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This category is for senior military leaders such as admirals, generals and air marshals. It includes military leaders with strategic influence who pre-dated the formal establishment of ranks as well as senior commanders in irregular militaries who may not hold rank. For middle and junior ranking officers, see Category:Military officers.
List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) List of American Civil War generals (Acting Confederate) List of American Civil War generals (Union) List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union) List of female United States military generals and flag officers
100: French Resistance fighter (Compagnon de la Libération) [31] Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford: 1917–2017: 100: British Royal Navy officer and submariner [32] Susan Ahn Cuddy: 1915–2015: 100: American Navy officer; first female gunnery officer in U.S. Navy [33] Donald L. Custis: 1917–2021: 103: American Navy vice admiral [34] Aaron S ...
Authorized three- and four-star officers to retire in the highest grade held on active duty, at the discretion of the president and subject to confirmation by the Senate, with no time-in-grade requirement [changed in 1996 to certification by secretary of defense and three-year time-in-grade requirement (110 Stat. 292)]. Act of January 28, 2008
The following is a list of the prominent names in U.S. Marine Corps lore—the people who make up what the Marines call "knowledge". Names in this list are notable for actions made as a Marine; individuals whose notability is unrelated to service in uniform can be found at List of United States Marines.
"Xiao Wei Yuan Zhang 小委员长" (Chinese, "Little Chairman"), – Chen Cheng, Chinese political and military leader, and one of the main National Revolutionary Army commanders during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War, because Chiang Kai-Shek was often referred to as 'Chairman', thus to describe Chen's position as second ...
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.
The U.S. did not fight any major wars during the time when Wilson was of the usual age for military service (18 to 33) and the peacetime armed forces were very small during this time. Wilson was in his mid-40s and working as a professor at Princeton during the Spanish-American War.