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Realigning the Stars: A Methodology for Reviewing Active Component General and Flag Officer Requirements. Santa Monica, California: RAND Corporation. Jones, Priscilla Dale (2020). United States Space Force: Some Origins of the Idea "Whose Time Has Come" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Air Force History & Museums Program. Marion, Forrest L. (2023).
The presentation of posthumous rank in the United States Armed Forces has become less common in the 21st century, but was widely used during the era of the Vietnam War and prior. One of the most famous posthumous promotions was that of George Washington to the rank of General of the Armies of the United States. The promotion took place in 1976 ...
The next year, Navy admiral Richard G. Colbert received a similar posthumous promotion on the permanent retired list after terminal cancer forced him to relinquish his four-star command and transfer to the temporary disability retired list in his permanent two-star grade, where he died before the Senate could confirm his nomination to retire in ...
Promotion to three- and four-star grades on the retired list originally required the same presidential nomination and Senate confirmation as an active-duty assignment. The Senate routinely confirmed three- and four-star officers to retire in grade until the early 1990s, when a series of controversial retirements drew heightened scrutiny, first ...
[161] [162] Pershing's promotion was authorized on 3 September 1919, just in time for the secretary of war to hand him his new commission when he returned from Europe. [16] Congress and Pershing both opposed March's promotion, having clashed with him during the war, so he reverted to major general alongside Bliss when their emergency grades ...
The DOPMA achieved Congressional goals to create uniform promotion outcomes, standardized career lengths across the services, and regulated the number of senior officers as a proportion of the force. It also created reasonable and predictable expectations of when an officer would be eligible for promotion. However, it also had unintended effects.
The character and meaning of the Order of Martha Washington Award is exemplified in her actions as general George Washington's spouse during the Revolutionary War. When general Washington took command of the Continental Army, Martha Washington was suddenly responsible for child-rearing, guest hospitality, and supervision of the family estate ...
General of the Armies of the United States, more commonly referred to as General of the Armies, is the highest military rank in the United States.The rank has been conferred three times: to John J. Pershing in 1919, as a personal accolade for his command of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I; to George Washington in 1976, as a posthumous honor during the United States ...