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Legion of Merit
The Legion of Merit is a military decoration of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements. The decoration is issued both to United States military personnel and to military and political figures...
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| John McCain |
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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into...
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| David Petraeus |
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General David Howell Petraeus, USA (born November 7, 1952) is the 10th and current Commander, U.S. Central Command. Petraeus previously served as Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from January 26, 2007 to September 16, 2008. As...
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| Tommy Franks |
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General Tommy Ray Franks, United States Army, KBE, (born 17 June 1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma) is a retired General in the United States Army. His last Army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States...
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| Chuck Yeager |
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Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He is widely considered to be the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947). Originally retiring as a...
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| George S. Patton |
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George Smith Patton, Jr. (also George Smith Patton III) (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a United States Army officer most famous for his leadership commanding corps and armies as a general in World War II. He was also widely known for...
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| William Westmoreland |
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William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968, with the Tet Offensive. He had adopted a strategy of attrition against...
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| Chesty Puller |
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Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Puller is the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, and the only Marine to receive five Navy Crosses, the United...
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| James Stockdale |
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Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy.
Stockdale led aerial attacks from the carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA 14) during the 1964 Gulf...
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| David H. Hackworth |
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David Haskell Hackworth (November 11, 1930 – May 4, 2005) known also as "Hack", was a highly decorated United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist. During his time as a journalist, Hackworth investigated many subjects, including a...
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| Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. |
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General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (also known as "Stormin' Norman" and "The. Bear") (born August 22, 1934) is a retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the...
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| George Patton IV |
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George Smith Patton (formerly George Patton IV) (December 24, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts - June 27, 2004 in South Hamilton, Massachusetts) was a Major General in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George Patton.
A 1946...
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| David Charles Jones |
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David Charles Jones (born July 9, 1921) is a retired U.S. Air Force general and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
David C. Jones was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota and raised in Minot, North Dakota, where he graduated from Minot High...
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| Louis H. Wilson, Jr. |
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General Louis Hugh Wilson, Jr. (February 11, 1920 – June 21, 2005) was a World War II recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Guam, and 26th Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Louis was born in Brandon, Mississippi. He...
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| Leonard F. Chapman, Jr. |
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Leonard Fielding Chapman, Jr. (November 3, 1913 - January 6, 2000) was the 24th Commandant of the Marine Corps and served in that capacity from 1968 to 1972. He was World War II combat veteran — being decorated for his actions in the Battle of...
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| Earl E. Anderson |
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General Earl E. Anderson (born June 24, 1919, in Morgantown, West Virginia), the youngest active duty Marine ever promoted to the rank of General and the first active duty Marine Naval Aviator to be promoted to a 4-star rank, became Assistant...
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| Bernard W. Rogers |
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Bernard William Rogers (July 16, 1921 – October 27, 2008) was an American general who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and later as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and Commander in Chief, United States European Command....
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| Wallace M. Greene |
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General Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. (December 27, 1907 – March 8, 2003) was a four-star United States Marine Corps general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1967. At the end of his term as...
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| Robert T. Frederick |
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Robert Tryon Frederick (March 14, 1907 - November 29, 1970) was a highly decorated American combat commander during World War II, who commanded the 1st Special Service Force, the 1st Airborne Task Force and the 45th Infantry Division.
Robert T....
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| Victor H. Krulak |
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Victor H. Krulak (January 7, 1913 – December 29, 2008) was a decorated United States Marine Corps officer who saw action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was born in Denver, Colorado. Krulak, considered a visionary by fellow Marines, was the...
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| John K. Singlaub |
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John Kirk Singlaub is a highly-decorated former OSS officer and a retired Major General in the United States Army, and a founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was a joint founder, with Congressman Larry McDonald, of the...
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| Robert H. Barrow |
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General Robert Hilliard Barrow (February 5, 1922 – October 30, 2008) was the 27th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) from 1979 to 1983. Barrow served for 41 years, including overseas command duty in three wars. He was awarded the...
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| Robert E. Cushman, Jr. |
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General Robert Everton Cushman, Jr. (December 24, 1914 - January 2, 1985) served as the 25th Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1972 to June 30, 1975. He was honored for heroism in battle during World War II at the battles of Guam (Navy...
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| Robert C. Kingston |
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Robert Charles Kingston (July 16, 1928 - February 28, 2007) was an American General who served as the commander of United States Central Command.
Kingston graduated from Brookline High School in 1947. He entered the Army as an enlisted soldier in...
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| Frederick C. Weyand |
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Frederick Carlton Weyand (born in Arbuckle, California, September 15, 1916) is a former U.S. Army General. Weyand was the last commander of American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1972-1973, and served as the 28th US Army Chief of Staff...
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| Bud Day |
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George Everett "Bud" Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having...
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| James L. Holloway III |
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James Lemuel Holloway III (born 1922) is a retired United States Navy admiral and naval aviator who was highly decorated for his actions during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. After the Vietnam War, he was posted to The Pentagon,...
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| Lewis William Walt |
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Lewis William Walt (February 16, 1913 – March 26, 1989), also known as Lew Walt, was a United States Marine Corps officer who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. His decorations included two Navy Crosses and two...
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| Robert L. Howard |
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Robert L. Howard (b. July 11 1939 in Opelika, Alabama) is a highly decorated officer of the United States Army and Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War.
He entered the Army at Montgomery, Alabama and retired as Colonel.
As a staff sergeant of...
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| Samuel Jaskilka |
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Samuel Jaskilka (born December 15, 1919) is a retired four-star general whose last assignment was Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps (1975-1978). General Jaskilka is a highly decorated veteran of the Korean War, having lead the...
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| William B. Rosson |
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General William Bradford Rosson (August 25, 1918 – December 12, 2004) commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific from October 1970 to January 1973. He was commissioned in 1940 through ROTC and saw combat in World War II, earning the Distinguished Service...
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| John R. Deane, Jr. |
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John Russell Deane, Jr. was a United States Army general and served as commander of the United States Army Materiel Command.
Deane was born in San Francisco, California on June 8, 1919. In 1937, he enlisted in the 16th Infantry. After one year, he...
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| John L. Throckmorton |
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General John Lathrop Throckmorton (February 28, 1913–February 13, 1986) was born in Kansas City, Missouri on February 28, 1913. After graduating from Culver Military Academy in 1931 he attended and graduated from the United States Military Academy...
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| Jon R. Cavaiani |
Jon R. Cavaiani (born August 2, 1943) is a retired United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Born in England, Cavaiani immigrated to the...
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| Peter Cosgrove |
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General Peter John Cosgrove AC, MC (born 28 July 1947) is a retired Australian Army officer. He was the Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 3 July 2002 to 3 July 2005, when he retired from active service.
Cosgrove was educated at Waverley...
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| George Scratchley Brown |
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General George Scratchley Brown (1918–1978) was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, he served as the senior military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council and the Secretary of Defense....
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| Linda J. Stierle |
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Linda J. Stierle is a Nurse and a retired Brigadier General.
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| Kathleen Paige |
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Rear Admiral Kathleen K. Paige was the Program Director, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), the sea-based element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) under development by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) . Rear Admiral Paige retired...
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| Barbara E. McGann |
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Barbara E. McGann is a retired Rear Admiral.
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| Joan Marie Engel |
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Rear Admiral Joan Marie Engel held the position as the 18th Director of the Navy Nurse Corps from September 1994 to August 1998. She concurrently served as deputy commander for personnel management in the Health Sciences, Education and Training...
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| Carol C. Elliot |
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Carol C. Elliot is a retired Army Officer.
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| Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian, noted for producing works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. A sailor as well as a scholar,...
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| Richard Myers |
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Richard Bowman Myers (born March 1, 1942) is a former four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Chairman, Myers was the United States military's highest ranking uniformed...
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| Hyman G. Rickover |
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Hyman George Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986), was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who invented the nuclear submarine. Rickover was known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", which as of July 2007 had produced 200 nuclear...
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| Omar Bradley |
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General of the Army Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General of the Army in the United States Army. He was the last surviving...
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| Wesley Clark |
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Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr., KBE (born December 23, 1944) is a retired general of the United States Army. Clark was valedictorian of his class at West Point, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in...
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| Lyman Lemnitzer |
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Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (August 29, 1899 – November 12, 1988) was an American Army General, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served Supreme Allied Commander, NATO from 1963 to 1969.
Lemnitzer was born on...
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| Peter Pace |
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Peter Pace (born November 5, 1945) is a retired four-star general in the United States Marine Corps who served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first Marine appointed to the United States' highest-ranking military office....
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| John M. Shalikashvili |
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General John Malchase David Shalikashvili (Georgian: ჯონ მალხაზ დავით შალიკაშვილი) (born June 27, 1936) is a retired officer of the United States Army who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997. He was born in Warsaw,...
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| William J. Crowe |
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Admiral William James Crowe, Jr. (January 2, 1925 – October 18, 2007) was a United States Navy Admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and as the ambassador to the United...
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| Frank Whittle |
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. Sharing credit with Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain for independently inventing the jet engine, he is hailed as a...
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| Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. |
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Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S....
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