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This is a list of lists of military commanders. Africa. Central African Republic. List of warlords in the Central African Republic; Cameroon. List of Ambazonian ...
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 ...
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.
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
Eugene Sledge – author of the 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, which chronicled his combat experiences during World War II; JD Vance – military journalist, U.S. senator from Ohio, and current vice president of the United States; George O. Van Orden – brigadier general and "Father of Marine Snipers"
In this October 2018 photo, then-US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens as then-President Donald Trump answers questions during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room in Washington, DC.
All-time leading jet ace during World War II. [12] Ilmari Juutilainen Finland: 1939–1944 1932–1947 94 Fokker D.XXI, Brewster Buffalo and Bf 109: The top scoring Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force), and the top scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time. The top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force with 94 confirmed aerial combat victories [13]
The best military leaders do this instinctively. In Iraq, Nash once watched a battle commander lean over a wounded Marine being carried off on a gurney; like most of the wounded, he was not only in extreme pain and fear, but tormented with shame for having been wounded, and guilt at having to leave his buddies.