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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Rank of military officers
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Date: 6 Feb 91 03:24:39 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
>  General                   Admiral                4-stars 

Dept. of trivia:  there are actually theoretically two higher Army ranks
(don't know about USAF and USMC), although neither has been used lately.
There is a five-star general, "General Of The Army"; insignia is five
stars in a circle.  And there is "General Of The Armies" -- note plural --
which was used only once, for Pershing in WWI; he was given authority to
design his own insignia for it, but apparently never did so.
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