Effective Dates of Promotion
- Second Lieutenant June 4, 1968
- First Lieutenant December 4, 1969
- Captain June 4, 1971
- Major September 1, 1979
- Lieutenant Colonel November 1, 1981
- Colonel December 1, 1985
- Brigadier General June 1, 1992
- Major General May 25, 1995
- Lieutenant General September 20, 1996
- General October 31, 1997
Read more about this topic: John A. Gordon
Famous quotes containing the words effective, dates and/or promotion:
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for- the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“What is most interesting and valuable in it, however, is not the materials for the history of Pontiac, or Braddock, or the Northwest, which it furnishes; not the annals of the country, but the natural facts, or perennials, which are ever without date. When out of history the truth shall be extracted, it will have shed its dates like withered leaves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)