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Parent topics
- United States Marine Corps [r]: A branch of the United States Armed Forces, with primary responsibilities as naval infantry and in amphibious warfare, are organized in Marine Air-Ground Task Forces capable of serving as up to corps headquarters with integrated close air support [e]
- Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The staff committee of the most senior members of the U.S. military services, charged with policy advice, doctrinal development, and preparedness rather than operational control of forces [e]
Subtopics
- Samuel Nicholas [r]: Add brief definition or description 1775-1781
- William Burrows [r]: Add brief definition or description 1798-1804
- Franklin Wharton [r]: Add brief definition or description 1804-1818
- Anthony Gale [r]: Add brief definition or description 1819-1820
- Archibald Henderson [r]: 5th and longest-serving (1820-1859} Commandant of the Marine Corps [e] 1820-1859
- John Harris [r]: Add brief definition or description 1859-1864
- Jacob Zeilin [r]: Add brief definition or description 1864-1876
- Charles McCawley [r]: Add brief definition or description 1876-1891
- Charles Heywood [r]: Add brief definition or description 1891-1903
- George Elliott [r]: Add brief definition or description 1903-1910
- William Biddle [r]: Add brief definition or description 1911-1914
- George Barnett [r]: Add brief definition or description 1914-1920
- John Lejeune [r]: Add brief definition or description 1920-1929
- Wendell C. Neville [r]: Add brief definition or description 1929-1930
- Ben Fuller [r]: Add brief definition or description 1930-1934
- John Russell [r]: Add brief definition or description 1934-1936
- Thomas Holcomb [r]: Add brief definition or description 1936-1943
- Alexander A. Vandegrift [r]: Add brief definition or description 1944-1947
- Clifton Cates [r]: Add brief definition or description 1948-1951
- Lemuel Shepherd [r]: Add brief definition or description 1952-1955
- Randolph Pate [r]: Add brief definition or description 1956-1959
- David Shoup [r]: A U.S. Marine Corps general and the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps (1960-1963); received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Tarawa [e] 1960-1963
- Wallace Greene [r]: Add brief definition or description 1964-1967
- Leonard Chapman [r]: Add brief definition or description 1968-1971
- Robert Cushman [r]: Add brief definition or description 1972-1975
- Louis Wilson [r]: Add brief definition or description 1975-1979
- Robert Barrow [r]: Add brief definition or description 1979-1983
- Paul X. Kelley [r]: Retired general, United States Marine Corps; Commandant of the Marine Corps at the time of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings; Adviser, Foundation for Defense of Democracies [e] 1983-1987
- Alfred M. Gray, Jr. [r]: 29th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and a strong backer of the doctrinal changes of "maneuver warfare", as well as warrior ethos and shared values [e] 1987-1991
- Carl Mundy [r]: Add brief definition or description 1991-1995
- Charles Krulak [r]: Retired general of the United States Marine Corps; 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps (1995-1999); son of LTG Victor "Brute" Krulak [e] 1995-1999
- James L. Jones [r]: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration, he is a retired United States Marine Corps general, whose last active duty assignment was NATO military and United States European Command senior officer; previously Commandant of the Marine Corps [e] 1999--2003
- Michael Hagee [r]: Add brief definition or description 2003--2006
- James Conway [r]: 34th U.S. Commandant of the Marine Corps, who took office in 2006, having commanded I Marine Expeditionary Force in the Gulf War [e] 2006--
Other related topics
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command [e]
- John Boyd [r]: United States Air Force colonel who developed both fighter aircraft tactics, and far more general models for command and control; a major theorist of modern warfare [e]
- Secretary of the Navy (U.S.) [r]: U.S. civilian official, of Assistant Secretary of Defense rank, who heads the U.S. Department of the Navy and to whom the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps report [e]
- U.S. Department of Defense [r]: The military forces of the United States and their supporting civil servants. [e]
- Victor Krulak [r]: Rising to lieutenant general before retiring from the United States Marine Corps as commander of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMFPAC), he was a decorated battalion commander in the Second World War, and then rose in command and staff assignments, becoming the first Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, and thus a key advisor in the early parts of the Vietnam War. His son, GEN Charles Krulak, became Commandant of the Marine Corps [e]
