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Maj. Gen. Thigpen also served as both the Acting Senior Commander for 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson and Deputy Commanding General for Support. Maj. Gen. Thigpen is a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who has commanded at every level from company through brigade.
Position insignia Position Part of Photo Incumbent Service branch Africa Command: U.S. Africa Command: Deputy Director of Operations (J-3), U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) Not applicable
Richard Cavazos, a Mexican-American, [6] was born on 31 January 1929, in Kingsville, Texas.His brother was former United States Secretary of Education, Lauro Cavazos. [7] He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in 1951, where he played on the football team and was a distinguished graduate of the Reserve Officers' Training ...
Major General Tracy R. Norris was the Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard from 2019 to 2022. [1] Norris was the first female commander of the Texas Military Department, an organization composed of the Texas Air National Guard, Texas Army National Guard, and the Texas State Guard.
On June 25, Texas President David G. Burnet appointed Major General Mirabeau B. Lamar as secretary of war, to succeed the resigning Thomas J. Rusk. Texas received word that Mexico had rejected the Treaty of Velasco and had sent General José de Urrea to attack Goliad, Rusk immediately rescinded his resignation. Huston and Thomas Jefferson Green ...
Notable among them was future Texas governor Edmund J. Davis who initially commanded the Union Army's 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment and rose to the rank of brigadier general. Texas's relatively large German population around Austin County led by Paul Machemehl tried to remain neutral in the war but eventually left Confederate Texas for Mexico.
After the Mexican–American War, Twiggs was appointed brevet major general and commanded the U.S. Army's Department of Texas. He was in this command when the American Civil War broke out. [2] He was one of five general officers in the U.S. Army in 1861, along with Winfield Scott, John Wool, Joseph E. Johnston, and William Harney.
Lieutenant General Hobart Raymond Gay (May 16, 1894 – August 19, 1983), nicknamed "Hap", was a United States Army officer who served in numerous conflicts, including World War II, where he worked closely alongside General George S. Patton, and later in the Korean War, where he commanded the 1st Cavalry Division.