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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.
No lieutenant generals were appointed as lieutenant generals of the line). A lieutenant general of the staff was an officer who held the temporary rank of lieutenant general in the Regular Army only while occupying an office designated by statute to carry that rank, and who reverted to a lower permanent grade upon relinquishing that office. [3]
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.
For example, Lieutenant General Lee K. Levy II relinquished his three-star command in 2018, [329] but remained on active duty for over a year after his retirement ceremony in his permanent grade of major general [o] pending an investigation by the Air Force inspector general, [330] before being allowed to retire as a major general.
Any lieutenant general was a viable candidate for commandant if he was young enough to complete a full four-year term before reaching the statutory retirement age of 62, as were prominent major generals. [43] A commandant tended to appoint lieutenant generals in two waves, one at the start of his term and one in the middle. [43]
An Army or Marine Corps lieutenant general typically commands a corps-sized unit (20,000 to 45,000 soldiers for an Army Corps and a similar number of Marines for a Marine Expeditionary Force), while an Air Force lieutenant general commands a large Numbered Air Force consisting of several wings or a smaller USAF Major Command (MAJCOM) such as ...
This is a complete list of lieutenant generals in the United States Air Force before 1960, including those appointed in the United States Army from the United States Army Air Forces or United States Army Air Corps before the Air Force was established in 1947.
U. List of active duty United States Air Force major generals; List of lieutenant generals in the United States Air Force before 1960; List of United States Air Force lieutenant generals from 2000 to 2009