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For the Army and the Air Force, the chief of staff [54] [55] and the vice chief of staff [56] [57] for both services are all four-star generals. For the Navy, the chief [58] and vice chief of naval operations [59] are both four-star admirals. For the Marine Corps, the commandant [60] and the assistant commandant [61] are both four-star
General Johnnie Edward Wilson (born 4 February 1944) is a retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command from 1996 to 1999. He also served as the 25th Chief of Ordnance for the United States Army Ordnance Corps.
Robert Hilliard Barrow (February 5, 1922 – October 30, 2008) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. Barrow was the 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1979 to 1983. He served for 41 years, including overseas command duty in World War II , the Korean War and the Vietnam War .
He appointed Mattis, a retired four-star general to head the Pentagon; his chief of staff John Kelly was another retired four-star general, and two of his national security advisers were three ...
The four-star grade caps of 7 Army generals, 6 Navy admirals, 9 Air Force generals, 2 Marine Corps generals, and 20 joint-duty four-star officers remained unchanged from 2009 until 2020, when the Army asked for an eighth general to command its forces in Europe and Africa. Congress kept the total number of four-star officers constant by ...
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To prevent the return to peacetime caps from demoting half of the Navy's four-star admirals, the 1978 defense appropriation authorization act changed the Navy's four-star cap to be a percentage of the number of flag officers on the active list, using the same formula employed by the Army and Air Force (15 percent above two-star rank, of which ...
(1883–1960) Father of Navy four-star admiral David H. Bagley and Navy four-star admiral Worth H. Bagley; grandson of North Carolina Governor Jonathan Worth; aunt married U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; wife's aunt married Navy five-star admiral William D. Leahy. 16: Harold B. Sallada: 11 May 1947 Oct 1949 1917 (1895–1977) 17