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Horacio Rivero Jr. (May 16, 1910 – September 24, 2000), was the first Puerto Rican and Hispanic four-star admiral, and the second Hispanic to hold that rank in the modern United States Navy, after the American Civil War Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801–1870).
Esteves was born Luis Raul Esteves y Völckers in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico on April 30, 1893. [a] [2] His father and mother were also natives of Aguadilla.His father, Francisco Esteves Soriano had served in the Spanish Army and his mother, Enedina Völckers Van der Dijs, of German and Dutch descent, was a housewife. [3]
The airline was established and started operations on January 1, 1982 in Saint Thomas, the United States Virgin Islands but it later [when?] moved its offices to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Four Star Air Cargo was wholly owned by Four Star Aviation Inc. [1] Four Star Air Cargo ceased operation in December 2009. [citation needed]
Admiral Horacio Rivero, Jr., the first Puerto Rican four-star Admiral in the United States Navy, oversaw the day-to-day work of the Navy as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. He was a strong supporter of a "brown-water navy," or riverine force, on the rivers of South Vietnam. [7]
Colonel Jaime Sabater Sr., USMC - USNA Class of 1927. Sabater was born on May 28, 1904, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was appointed to USNA on July 8, 1923, by Félix Córdova Dávila, the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in Washington D.C. During World War II, commanded the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines during the Bougainville amphibious ...
Puerto Rican in the Spanish Army, one of the first generals to join Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. [16] César Luis González, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Force. The first Puerto Rican pilot in the United States Army Air Forces and the first Puerto Rican pilot to die in WWII. Diego E. Hernández, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy.
Bad Bunny has officially sold out all 30 dates of his Puerto Rico residency, ... The record, released Jan. 5, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 as the reggaeton star’s seventh top 10 ...
Otero Barreto was born in the town of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, the son of Eloy Otero-Bruno and Crispina Barreto-Torres. [1] His father named him "Jorge", Spanish for George, after George Washington whom Otero-Bruno admired.