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Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. Signature. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. KCB ( / ˈʃwɔːrtskɒf / SHWORTS-kof; August 22, 1934 – December 27, 2012) was a United States Army general. While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq . Born in Trenton, New Jersey ...
Charles Quinton Brown Jr. (born 1962) is a United States Air Force general who has served as the 21st chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since October 1, 2023. Prior to his appointment, Brown served as the 22nd chief of staff of the Air Force from 2020 to 2023. Brown entered the Air Force in 1984 and served as a fighter pilot, where he has ...
Jacqueline Desiree Van Ovost (born September 29, 1965) [ 1] is a United States Air Force general who has served as the 14th commander of the United States Transportation Command since October 15, 2021. She was nominated to that post by President Biden on March 5, 2021. [ 2] Van Ovost had previously served as the commander of the Air Mobility ...
Curtis LeMay. Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a US Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, from 1961 to 1965.
The rank of general (or full general, or four-star general) is the highest rank normally achievable in the U.S. Air Force. It ranks above lieutenant general ( three-star general) and below General of the Air Force ( five-star general ). There have been 234 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Air Force.
The Commander-in-Chief's Trophy was the brainchild of Air Force General George B. Simler, a former Air Force Academy athletic director who envisioned the trophy as a means to create an annual series of football games for the Air Force Academy against the Military Academy and the Naval Academy. First awarded in 1972 by President Richard Nixon ...
Min Aung Hlaing ( Burmese: မင်းအောင်လှိုင်; pronounced [mɪ́ɰ̃ àʊɰ̃ l̥àɪɰ̃]; born 3 July 1956) is a Burmese army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) since seizing power in the February 2021 coup d'état. He additionally appointed himself Prime Minister ...
General Manoj Pande, PVSM AVSM VSM ADC (born 6 May 1962) is a retired four star general officer of the Indian Army.He last served as the 29th Chief of the Army Staff. [3] [4] [5] He previously served as 43rd Vice Chief of the Army Staff, [6] prior to that he was General Officer-Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command [7] and also as the Commander-in-Chief (CINCAN) of Andaman and Nicobar Command. [8]