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This is a list of active duty United States Army major generals collected from publicly available and accessible information. Joint positions. Department of Defense
Flag of an Army four-star general. The rank of general (or full general, or four-star general) is the highest rank normally achievable in the United States Army.It ranks above lieutenant general (three-star general) and below general of the Army (five-star general).
Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff render a salute during the departure ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base for former President Ronald Reagan, 11 June 2004.. There are currently 41 active-duty four-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 11 in the Army, three in the Marine Corps, nine in the Navy, 14 in the Air Force, three in the Space Force, one in the Coast Guard ...
A battlefield promotion is awarded to enlisted soldiers who are promoted to a higher enlisted rank during combat or combat conditions. The US Army discontinued this practice after the Vietnam War with the centralized promotion system, but in 2009 decided to again allow such promotions. [3] "Battlefield promotions are predicated on extraordinary ...
Entries in the following list of lieutenant generals are indexed by the numerical order in which each officer was promoted to that rank while on active duty, or by an asterisk (*) if the officer did not serve in that rank while on active duty in the U.S. Army or was promoted to four-star rank while on active duty in the U.S. Army.
The U.S. Army asked nearly 20 high-ranking officers who were planning to retire or move to another job to delay their career moves and stay in their current roles through December.
For the Army, lieutenant generals include corps and field army commanders, deputy and assistant chiefs of staff of the Army staff, [207] deputies of Army four-star commands, commanders of high-level geographic or component commands, the chief of Army reserve, [208] as well as high-level specialty positions [209] including the inspector general ...
The following list of Congressional legislation includes all acts of Congress pertaining to appointments to the grade of lieutenant general in the United States Army from 2000 to 2009. [ ah ] Each entry lists an act of Congress, its citation in the United States Statutes at Large , and a summary of the act's relevance, with officers affected by ...