- Ehren Watada
Ehren Watada is a First Lieutenant (1LT) of the United States Army who in June 2006 publicly refused to deploy to Iraq for his unit's assigned rotation to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Watada said he believed the war to be illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him party to war crimes. At the time he refused to deploy, he was assigned to duty with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, … - Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is the junior Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, … - Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s -16 August 2003) was an army officer and president of Uganda. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and advanced to the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army. He deposed Milton Obote and took power in a military coup in January 1971. His reign was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. - William Wood
William Wood (1961-October 2005) was an American army officer. He served as the commanding officer of the 184th Infantry Regiment in Iraq, and (as of November 2005) was the highest ranking United States military casualty in Iraq combat. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel, but had not been informed that he had been approved for promotion to colonel. He was based in Fort Stewart, Georgia. - James Stockdale
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. Shot down over enemy territory in 1965, Stockdale was the highest ranking naval officer held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was released in 1973. He was awarded 26 personal combat decorations, including the Medal of Honor and four Silver Stars. - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - Wesley L. Fox
Wesley Lee Fox (born September 30, 1931) is a decorated United States Military veteran and retired Colonel in the Marine Corps. Fox earned the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor, for valor during the Vietnam War. In addition, as a 43-year veteran, he is uniquely distinguished by having held all but one enlisted and officer rank from private to colonel. (The exception is Sergeant Major.) He retired only upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 62. - Charlie Parker
Charles Warrington Leonard "Charlie" Parker (born October 14, 1882 in Prestbury, Gloucestershire, died July 11, 1959 in Cranleigh, Surrey) was an English cricketer who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first class cricket, behind only Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman. Parker took no serious attention to cricket in his childhood, preferring to concentrate on golf. - William Wells
William Wells (c. 1770 - 15 August 1812), also known as Apekonit ("Carrottop"), was the son-in-law of Chief Little Turtle of the Miamis. Wells was born at Jacob's Creek, Pennsylvania, the youngest son of Captain Samuel Wells. The family moved to Kentucky when William was a small child, and his mother died shortly thereafter. The elder Wells was killed in an Indian raid near Louisville, and the young orphan was sent to live with a family friend. - John Chandler
John Chandler (February 1, 1762-September 25, 1841) was an American politician and soldier of Maine. The political career of Chandler, a Democratic-Republican, was interspersed with his involvement in the state militia during both the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Chandler was born in Epping, New Hampshire, the brother of Thomas Chandler. His father was a captain in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, and had died in 1776. - John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont, was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the epithet "The Pathfinder", which remains in use, sometimes as "The Great Pathfinder". - Michael Mori
Michael Dante Mori (born October 4, 1965) is a major in the United States Marine Corps. He is best known as the military lawyer of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, an Australian citizen convicted of providing material support for terrorism. Major Mori spent four years in the enlisted ranks, reporting for training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. After attending Norwich University, a military college located in Northfield, Vermont, and graduating in 1991, … - L. Fletcher Prouty
Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 - June 5, 2001) was a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, author, banker, and critic of US foreign policy, especially as regarded the activities of the CIA. His books include "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World" and "JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy". He had a 23-year military career rising to the rank of Colonel, … - Ray Davis
Raymond Gilbert "Ray" Davis (January 13, 1915-September 3, 2003) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer, serving in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. His single most notable endeavor was the salvation of hundreds of trapped Marines during the 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir while commanding the 1st Battalion 7th Marines, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. His final rank, appointed by President Nixon, was General. - Uss Jimmy Carter
USS "Jimmy Carter" (SSN-23), the third and last "Seawolf"-class submarine, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for former President Jimmy Carter, who served in the US Navy as an officer in the Submarine Service as a nuclear engineer. "Jimmy Carter" is one of the few ships of the United States Navy to have been named for a person who was alive at the time of the ship's naming. - Lewis Nixon
Lewis Nixon (September 30, 1918 - January 11, 1995) was a United States Army officer in the 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Easy Company. Lewis Nixon was portrayed by Ron Livingston in the HBO/BBC production "Band of Brothers". - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly controversial figure. - Carwood Lipton
Clifford Carwood "Lip" Lipton (January 30, 1920 - December 16, 2001) was a United States Army officer in the 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Easy Company. Lipton joined the Army in 1942 as a Private. On the battlefields of Europe he was promoted to Company First Sergeant and ultimately was given a battlefield commission to Second Lieutenant. He said "it was the greatest honor ever awarded" to him. - Larry D. Welch
General Larry D. Welch (born 1934) was the 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As chief, he served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipage of a combined active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian force serving at locations in the United States and overseas. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he and the other service chiefs function as the principal military advisers to the Secretary of Defense, … - Andrew Bertie
Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie (born 15 May 1929) is the current (and first British) Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. His full title is "His Most Eminent Highness Fra Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, Most Humble Guardian of the Poor of Jesus Christ". He has never married and has a younger brother. - Edwin Vose Sumner
Edwin Vose "Bull Head" Sumner (January 30, 1797 - March 21, 1863) was a U.S. Army officer who became a major general and the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War. His nickname "Bull Head" came from a legend that a musket ball once bounced off his head. - John D. Bulkeley
Vice Admiral John Duncan Bulkeley (19 August 1911 - 6 April 1996) was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor for actions in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was also the PT boat skipper who evacuated General MacArthur from Corregidor in the Philippines. The Navy named an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer after him: USS Bulkeley (DDG-84), commissioned in 2001. - Dick Scobee
Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut who died commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission. Born in Cle Elum, Washington, Scobee enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1957, where he served as a reciprocating engine mechanic at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas. - Daniel Brodhead
Daniel Brodhead (IV) (October 17, 1736 - November 15, 1809) was an American military and political leader during the American Revolutionary War and early days of the United States. - Colin Halkett
Sir Colin Halkett GCB, GCH (1774-1856) was a British army officer. - Allen B West
Allen B West is a retired American army officer and candidate for the United States Congress in Florida. West, who was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, currently resides in Florida with his wife Angela and his daughters Aubrey and Austen. - Thomas Ap Catesby Jones
Thomas ap Catesby Jones (1790 - 1858) was a U.S. Navy officer during the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War. Jones was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Thomas ap C. Jones began his naval career during the War of 1812, receiving honors for bravery at Lake Borgne, Louisiana, delaying the British before the Battle of New Orleans. In 1826, he signed a treaty with King Kamehameha III of the Sandwich Islands. - Samuel L. Gravely Jr.
Vice Admiral Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. (June 4 1922 - October 22 2004) was an African American Navy pioneer and a native of Richmond, Virginia. Gravely spent two years at Virginia Union University, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. Following his time in college, he enlisted in the Naval Reserves on September 15, 1942 and was trained as a Fireman Apprentice. - Władysław Anders
Lt.Gen Władysław Anders was a General in the Polish Army and later in life a politician with the Polish government-in-exile in London. Anders was born on August 11 1892, in the Polish village of Krośniewice-Blonie, near Kutno. As a young officer Anders served Tsar Nicholas II in the 1st Krechowiecki Lancer's Regiment during World War I, later joining the Polish Army and again serving as an Commissioned officer in a cavalry regiment. - Alan Gordon Cunningham
General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, GCMG, KCB, DSO, MC (1 May 1887 - 30 January 1983) was a British Army officer, noted for victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. He was the younger brother of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope. Cunningham was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy before taking a commission in the army in 1906. - Richard Somers
Richard Somers (1778 or 1779-4 September 1804) was an officer of the United States Navy, killed during a daring assault on Tripoli. Born at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, he attended a Philadelphia school with future naval heroes Stephen Decatur and Charles Stewart. He was appointed midshipman on 25 April 1797 and served in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France in frigate "United States" with Decatur and Stewart and commanded by Captain John Barry. - William McBryar
William McBryar was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. McBryar joined the Army from New York City and by March 7 1890 was serving as a Sergeant in Company K of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. On that day, he participated in an engagement in Arizona where he "[d]istinguished himself for coolness, … - Magnus Maximus
Magnus Maximus (ca. 335-August 28, 388), also Maximianus, was an usurper of the Western Roman Empire from 383 until his death, in 388, by order of Emperor Theodosius I. - John Larsson
John Larsson (born April 2, 1938) was the Swedish-born 17th General, or International Leader, of The Salvation Army (2002-2006). The son of officer parents, he spent his early years in Sweden, Denmark, Chile and Argentina. He became an officer in 1957 from the corps in Upper Norwood, London, England. He graduated from the University of London with a BD degree. After a year as a corps officer in the north of England, … - William Roache
William "Bill" Roache MBE, Hon D.Litt (born April 25, 1932 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire) is an English television actor, who plays the part of 'Ken Barlow' in the long-running soap opera, "Coronation Street". He is the only remaining member of the original cast, having appeared in the first episode in 1960. He was educated at the independent Rydal School in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. - Jurij Vega
Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega (also correct Veha; official Latin Georgius Bartholomaei Vecha; German Georg Freiherr von Vega) (March 23, 1754 - September 26, 1802) was a Slovenian mathematician, physicist and artillery officer. - Samuel C. Armstrong
Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 - May 11, 1893) was an American educator and a commissioned officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his work after the war as the founder and first principal of the normal school which is now Hampton University. - Riley L. Pitts
Riley Leroy Pitts (October 15 1937 - October 31 1967) was a United States Army Captain and the first African American commissioned officer to be awarded the Medal of Honor. The medal was presented posthumously by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 10, 1968 for actions in Ap Dong, South Vietnam. - Peter de la Billière
General Sir Peter Edgar de la Couer de la Billière KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & Bar (b. 1934) is a former British soldier, who was Director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War. - David Case
Air Commodore David Case is the highest ranking black officer in the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom, and at the age of 47 is the highest ranking black officer ever to serve in Britain's armed forces. He was born in Guyana, and immigrated to Britain at the age of 5. He was educated at Beckenham Grammar School and learnt to fly on a Flying Scholarship while still at school.
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