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Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallace (1827–1905), Union major general at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Monocacy, governor of New Mexico Territory, minister to the Ottoman Empire, and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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.
Lucius D. Clay
Lucius DuBignon Clay was a US Army general and logistics specialist who served as Military Governor of Germany and directed the Berlin Airlift before acting as President Kennedy's representative.
Malin Craig
Malin Craig (1875-1945) was a U.S. Army general, Chief of Staff 1935-1939 between MacArthur and Marshall; West Point 1898, cavalry officer, WWI I Corps chief of staff, modernized the Army and chose Marshall as successor.
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.
Mark W. Clark
Mark W. Clark (1896-1984), U.S. Army four-star general, commanded the Fifth Army and 15th Army Group in Italy, captured Rome in 1944, signed the 1953 Korean armistice as UN Command chief, and led The Citadel 1954-1965.
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.
Maxwell D. Taylor
Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), American four-star general, 101st Airborne commander on D-Day, Army Chief of Staff 1955–59, author of flexible response doctrine, Kennedy's military representative and JCS Chairman 1962–64, later US ambassador to South Vietnam 1964–65.
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.
Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) was a major general of the Continental Army, quartermaster general, and commander of the Southern Department 1780-82, whose Carolinas campaign regained Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina from the British.
Nathaniel Lyon
Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), Union brigadier general in the Civil War, seized Camp Jackson in St. Louis, drove Missouri's pro-Confederate governor from Jefferson City, and was the first Union general killed in battle, at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861.
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.
Omar Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), the "GI General," commanded II Corps, First Army, and the 12th Army Group in Europe, served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and became General of the Army in 1950.
Philip Schuyler
Philip John Schuyler (1733–1804), Albany-born Dutch-aristocrat general, one of four original Continental major generals and Northern Department commander, blamed for Fort Ticonderoga's loss, replaced by Gates in 1777, later U.S. senator and canal advocate.
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.
Richard Winters
Richard "Dick" Winters (1918–2011) was a U.S. Army major who led Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, at Brecourt Manor on D-Day, Market-Garden, and Bastogne, later made famous by Band of Brothers.
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.
Robert B. Hood
Robert B. Hood (1891-1964) was a US Army colonel from Kansas, commissioned in 1917, who won the Distinguished Service Cross for artillery heroism in World War I, survived Pearl Harbor at Schofield Barracks, and retired in 1961.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), US Army engineer and Confederate commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; resigned April 1861, surrendered at Appomattox April 9, 1865, later president of Washington College.
Robert Sink
Robert Frederick Sink (1905-1965), American Army lieutenant general, commanded the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through World War II (D-Day, Market Garden, Bastogne), later led STRAC; portrayed by Dale Dye in Band of Brothers.
Ronald Speirs
Ronald C. Speirs (1920-2007), US Army officer of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Dog Company platoon leader who took command of Easy Company at Foy on January 13, 1945, ran through German lines to contact I Company and back; later Korea, Spandau Prison governor, Laos.
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.
Sam Houston
Sam Houston (1793–1863), American soldier and statesman, hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, first and third president of the Republic of Texas, US senator, and the only governor of two states, Tennessee and Texas.
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young
Samuel Baldwin Marks Young (1840–1924), American Army general; Civil War cavalry officer, frontier veteran, first Army War College president, and first U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1903–1904).
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.