Military
- Steve Clarey 1962, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, commanded Pacific Fleet amphibious forces during Persian Gulf War.
- Edward Peck Curtis 1917 (dropped out to serve in World War I), Major General and Chief of Staff, U. S. Strategic Air Force in Europe during World War II.
- Myles C. Fox 1939, awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions during World War II.
- William Bradford Turner 1914, awarded Medal of Honor posthumously for actions in France 1918
- Ephraim Williams Jr. Benefactor of Williams College, Colonel in the Massachusetts militia, killed in action during the Battle of Lake George in the French and Indian War
- Charles White Whittlesey 1905, awarded Medal of Honor for his actions as commander of the famed Lost Battalion of WWI. Was named as one of the "three outstanding heroes of the AEF" (Allied Expeditionary Force) by General Pershing.
- Edwin Bliss Wheeler 1939, Major General in the Marine Corps, for whom the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course honor award is named.
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)