U. S. Military 100 most influential
lagr...@my-deja.com
most influential people of the century.
War Heroes
Top Generals
1. General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower
2. Navy Fleet Admiral Ernest King
3. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
4. Nay Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
5. Navy Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood
6. General of the Army Omar Bradley
7. Navy Fleet Admiral William "Bull" Halsey
8. Navy Fleet Admiral Raymond Spruance
9. Army Air Forces Gen. Ira Eaker
10. Army Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing
11. Army Air Forces Gen. Claire Chennault
True Warriors
1. Army Sgt. Alvin York
2. Army Maj. Audie Murphy
3. Army Air Corps Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher
4. Marine Lt Gen Lewis "Chesty" Puller
5. Army Air Forces Gen. Jimmy Doolittle
6. Army LTG Anthony MacAuliffe
7. Navy ADM Arleigh "31-knot" Burke
8. Marine COL Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
9. Navy RADM James Stockdale
10. Navy CDR, Senator John McCain (Vote for McCain!)
11. Navy LCDR Joeseph Rochefort
All Star Warfighters
1. Navy ADM Marc Mitscher
2. Army LTG George Patton
3. Marine GEN David Shoup
4. Marine GEN Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith
5. Army MG Leonard Wood
6. Army GEN Mathew Ridgeway
7. Army GEN Lucius Clay
8. Army GEN Norman "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf
9. Amry LTG Frederick Franks
10. Air Force GEN Charles Horner
11. Army GEN Creighton Abrams
Visionaries
1. General of the Army George C. Marshall (VMI Grad)
2. Navy ADM Hyman Rickover
3. Marine GEN John Lejeune
4. General of the Air Force Harley "Hap" Arnold
5. Navy ADM John Towers
6. Air Force GEN Curtis LeMay
7. Marine LTC Earl "Pete" Ellis
8. Army MG William "Wild Bill" Donovan
9. Army GEN Lewis Hershey (62 years of active duty)
10. Air Force GEN Hoyt Vandenberg
11. Navy ADM Forest Sherman
12. Marine GEN Alexander Vandegrift
13. Air Force GEN George Kenney
14. Navy ADM Arthur Radford
15. Army GEN Colin Powell
16. Army GEN William Depuy (AirLand Battle)
17. Air Force GEN Merrill McPeak
18. Navy ADM William Shepherd Benson
19. Navy VADM Charles "Swede" Momsen
Pioneers
1. Navy Commodore Grace Murray Hopper (Retired at age 80!)
2. Air Force GEN Lauris Norstad
3. Army GEN Hamilton Howse (AIR ASSAULT!)
4. Navy ADM Elmo Zumwalt
5. Army LTG Brehon Somervell
6. Navy RADM Robert Peary
7. Marine GEN Roy Geiger
8. Navy ADM Richard Byrd
9. Army GEN Peyton March
10. Army MG George Goethals (Panama Canal)
11. Navy RADM Alan Shepard
12. Marine MAJ Senator John Glenn
Barrier Breakers
1. Air Force BG Charles "Chuck" Yeager
2. Navy RADM Arlene Duerke
3. Air Force GEN Daniel "Chappie" James
4. Air Force Reserve COL Jacqueline Cochran
5. Army BG Benjamin Oliver Davis
6. Navy CAPT Joy Bright Hancock
7. Navy CDR Barbara Rainey
8. Navy Master Chief Botswain's Mate Carl Brashear (see the movie)
Civilians
1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Ernie Pyle
3. Robert McNamara (he says he's sorry, though)
4. Teddy Roosevelt
5. Ronald Reagan
6. James Forrestal
7. John Lehman
8. Josephus Daniels (A good cup o'Joe)
9. Paul Nitze
10. Henry Stimson
By Fate Alone
1. Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
2. Air force CAPT Gary Powers
3. Navy CDR Lloyd Bucher (USS Pueblo)
4. Army LT Thomas Selfridge
5. The Sullivan Brothers
6. Navy LT Kara Spears
7. Army National Guerd COL Margarethe Cammemeyer
8. Army LTC Rhonda Cornum
Caught in Controversy
1. Army Air Corps BG Billy Mitchell
2. Army LT William Calley
3. Navy RADM Husband Kimmel
4. Namy LT Paula Coughlin
5. Marine LTC Oliver North
6. Army GEN William Westmoreland
7. Army GEN Earle Weaver
8. Marine MG Smedley Butler
9. Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney
10. Air Force 1LT Kelly Flinn
Hope you find the list as interesting as I did. The Army Times had a
brief synopsis on each.
Dave LaGraffe
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Before you buy.
David Couvillon
What? No Gen. Patton here? Marine GySgt. Dan Daly and Gen. Smedley
Butler belong here too!
>All Star Warfighters
>1. Navy ADM Marc Mitscher
>2. Army LTG George Patton
>3. Marine GEN David Shoup
>4. Marine GEN Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith
>5. Army MG Leonard Wood
>6. Army GEN Mathew Ridgeway
>7. Army GEN Lucius Clay
>8. Army GEN Norman "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf
Right place, right time, right enemy. Belongs in the Top 10 of
Managers.
OK... These last two did go into space... after one other person and a
trainload of dogs and chimps.
AF BGen Chuck Yeager belongs here
David Couvillon
Major of Marines, Righter of Wrongs,
Wrong most of the time, Lover extrordinaire,
Chef de Hot Dog Excellance, Collector of
Hot Sauce, Avoider of Yard Work
Check out my homepage at
http://cust.iamerica.net/captcouv/
mcpete
lagr...@my-deja.com wrote:
> I thought people might be interested in the Army Times list of the 100
> most influential people of the century.
>
> Civilians
>
> 7. John Lehman
Read "Fall From Glory" and his memoirs - he's right up there on my list of
contemptible and scuzzy public figures.
Isn't this list a trifle nationalistic also?
Jim McDaniel
Jeff Hancock
"nationalistic" tendencies....
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KKJMVT
which could use some Nationalistic tendencies as far as I'm concerned
considering our recent foreign policy moves etc.
David
"GI" as man of the century......
lagr...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I thought people might be interested in the Army Times list of the 100
> most influential people of the century.
> All Star Warfighters
> 1. Navy ADM Marc Mitscher
> 2. Army LTG George Patton
> 3. Marine GEN David Shoup
> 4. Marine GEN Holland "Howlin' Mad" Smith
> 5. Army MG Leonard Wood
> 6. Army GEN Mathew Ridgeway
> 7. Army GEN Lucius Clay
> 8. Army GEN Norman "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf
Insane ranter
>
> > Civilians
> > 1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Yes the President that started the US on it road down the leftists highway
into socialism...later excelerated my Johnson.
Maybe if your a Marxist, Socialist, or Communists I pick him.
lagr...@my-deja.com
necessarily "best". Third, sexual references to your "Johnson" have no
place in this newsgroup!
Dave