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John Paul Vann
John Paul Vann (born John Paul Tripp, 1924–1972), U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and later civilian pacification chief in South Vietnam; Ap Bac critic, III Corps pacification director, first civilian to command troops in a combat zone.
John William Vessey Jr.
John William Vessey Jr. (1922–2016), American Army general and tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1982–1985) under Reagan; last WWII combat veteran chairman, later US envoy to Vietnam for POW/MIA affairs.
Joseph A. Ryan
Joseph A. Ryan is a US Army four-star general, West Point class of 1991 Infantry officer, former 25th Infantry Division commander and Army G-3/5/7, now commanding US Army Western Hemisphere Command at Fort Bragg since December 2025.
Joseph Votel
Joseph L. Votel, retired U.S. Army four-star general; commanded 75th Rangers, JSOC, SOCOM (2014-2016), and CENTCOM (2016-2019), leading the 79-nation coalition that defeated the ISIS caliphate.
Keith Kellogg
Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr., retired US Army lieutenant general, Vietnam veteran with the Silver Star, commanded the 82nd Airborne; NSC chief of staff, acting national security adviser, Pence's NSA adviser, and Trump's Ukraine envoy.
Kevin Leahy (general)
Kevin C. Leahy is a US Army lieutenant general and Special Forces officer commanding United States Army Central since March 2026, after leading Special Operations Command Central and Combined Joint Task Force–Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq.
Laura J. Richardson
Laura J. Richardson is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, first woman to command U.S. Southern Command (2021-2024), former Army North commander, 101st Airborne assault helicopter battalion commander in Iraq, later USGLC advisory council co-chair.
Lawrence G. Ferguson
Lawrence G. (Gil) Ferguson, U.S. Army lieutenant general from Tupelo, Mississippi; Air Force Academy 1990 cross-commission into Army; Special Forces officer; commanded 1st SFC and took USASOC command November 24, 2025.
Lloyd Austin
Lloyd James Austin III (born 1953) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and the 28th Secretary of Defense (2021-2025), the first African American in the role; former CENTCOM commander, Silver Star recipient, confirmed 93-2 with a congressional waiver.
Mark Milley
Mark Milley, born in 1958, is a retired United States Army general who served as the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023.
Martin Dempsey
Martin Edward Dempsey (born 1952) is a retired U.S. Army general, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011-2015), 37th Army Chief of Staff, 1st Armored Division commander in Baghdad, and author of Radical Inclusion.
Matthew Ridgway
Matthew Bunker Ridgway (1895-1993), U.S. Army general, 82nd Airborne and XVIII Airborne Corps commander in World War II, Eighth Army commander who reversed the Korean War, SACEUR 1952-1953, and Army Chief of Staff 1953-1955 who opposed intervention in Vietnam.
Michael A. Aquino
Michael A. Aquino (1946-2019), U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in psychological operations and founder of the Temple of Set after leaving LaVey's Church of Satan; author of From PSYOP to MindWar and investigated without charges in the 1987 Presidio daycare case.
Michael D. Steele
Michael Dane Steele is a retired US Army colonel, 101st Airborne Rakkasan brigade commander in Iraq 2005-2006 and Ranger company commander at Mogadishu 1993, reprimanded in 2006 over Iraqi civilian deaths; not the 82nd Airborne major general.
Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn (born 1958) is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, former DIA director, and Trump's 24-day national security adviser in 2017 who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was pardoned, and later won DOJ settlements.
Michael Kurilla
Michael "Erik" Kurilla, U.S. Army general from Elk River, Minnesota, 15th commander of U.S. Central Command (April 2022 to August 2025), West Point 1988, former 75th Ranger Regiment commander, oversaw 2025 Iran strikes.
Nadja West
Nadja Y. West is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and physician, 44th Army Surgeon General (2015-2019), first Black Army Surgeon General, first Black female lieutenant general, and highest-ranking woman West Point graduate.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (H. Norman Schwarzkopf) was a United States Army four-star general who led the coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War.
Raymond T. Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno, also known as Ray Odierno, was a United States Army four-star general who served as the 38th Chief of Staff of the Army from 2011 to 2015.
Robert B. Abrams
Robert B. "Abe" Abrams is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, former FORSCOM commander and Commander of USFK/UNC/CFC (2018-2021), known for the "kill the virus" COVID response and post-retirement advisory work.
Russel L. Honoré
Russel L. Honoré (born 1947) is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, the "Category 5 General" who commanded Joint Task Force Katrina in 2005 and later led the post-January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol security review.
Sean Parnell (spokesperson)
Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson and Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs since February 2025; former Army Ranger, 10th Mountain platoon leader, author of Outlaw Platoon, and failed Pennsylvania Senate candidate.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Stanley A. McChrystal, retired U.S. Army four-star general; former JSOC commander and ISAF commander in Afghanistan; resigned in 2010 after Rolling Stone's 'The Runaway General'; now leads McChrystal Group and teaches at Yale.
Stephen J. Townsend
Stephen J. Townsend (born 1959) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, fifth commander of U.S. Africa Command 2019-2022, earlier TRADOC chief and commander of the anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve coalition.
Thomas Carden
Thomas M. Carden Jr. is a U.S. Army National Guard general, first four-star Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2026), formerly Adjutant General of Georgia and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command.
Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks, also known as General Tommy Ray Franks, is the retired four-star U.S. Army general who commanded CENTCOM from 2000 to 2003, leading the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, before retiring in 2003 and publishing the memoir American Soldier.
Vernon A. Walters
Vernon A. Walters (1917–2002), U.S. Army lieutenant general, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence 1972–1976, and Reagan-era Ambassador to the United Nations and West Germany; polyglot interpreter for five presidents.
Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, retired US Army four-star general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1997-2000, led the 1999 Kosovo air campaign, was relieved early, and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
William Westmoreland
William Childs Westmoreland (1914–2005), American four-star general, commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam as MACV chief 1964–1968, built forces to over 500,000, pursued attrition and search-and-destroy, was replaced by Abrams after Tet, later Army chief of staff.