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From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: US 5-star generals
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.021155.22155@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:11:55 GMT
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From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
In article <1991Feb26.012607.6828@cbnews.att.com>, carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) writes:
> Can anyone tell me about 5 star generals in the US?  In particular,
> can you only become a ***** during wartime? Does a ***** get demoted
> after the war, or does he keep his rank? What is the relation between
> the Chairman of the JCS and a *****? How many stars do Powell and
> Schwarzkopf have? (The seem to only have 4 on their collars, but I'm
> not sure). Thanks!
> 
	Generals seem to become five star either during or shortly after
wartime.  There really isn't a need for them in peacetime because the
army isn't large enough to go that high in the command structure.  During
WWII we had four: Marshall, Arnold, Eisenhower, and Mac Arthur.  In 1949,
I think, Bradley was given that rank, also.  Five stars keep there rank,
lower ranks are sometimes only temporary raises in rank.  I had also heard
that five stars are never removed from active lists while alive, whether
they're doing army work or not, though I'm not certain of this.
	Powell and Schwarzkopf are indeed ****'s.  The last five was
Omar Bradley, who passed away in 1984, at I seem to remember 88 years
of age.

___ Gregg Parmentier ____ parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu ___

        "I waited in the dim hallway on a high-backed Spanish
        chair which Torquemada had made with his own hands."
                                        Ross Macdonald - Black Money


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