Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Rank of military officers Message-ID: <1991Feb8.015422.19442@cbnews.att.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 01:54:22 GMT References: <1991Feb4.063141.20048@cbnews.att.com> <1991Feb5.043249.6192@cbnews.att.com>, Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Allan Bourdius >From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) > >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 -- There is also a rank of "General of the Armies of the United States of America" to which only one man has been promoted: George Washington. The US Congress voted to pothumously promote him in 1976. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allan Bourdius [MIDN 3/C (Marine Option)/Brother, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity] ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu or Box 4719, 5125 Margaret Morrison St., Pgh., PA 15213 "Give, expecting nothing thereof." "Phi Kappa Theta, just the best." "An unwarlike Marine is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar." Nothing that I have written is the opinion of anyone but myself. So there!