Military
- Burwell B. Bell III, U.S. Army Commander
- Lt. Gen. John Bradley, chief of the U.S. Air Force Reserve and commander of Air Force Reserve command.
- Robert Emmet Callan, major general in the U.S. Army and assistant chief of staff in the War Department from 1931 to 1935.
- Clifton B. Cates, aide to President Woodrow Wilson and later Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Thomas A. Davis, Captain of Spanish-American war
- Norman C. Gaddis, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force.
- Robert C. Hinson, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of United States Strategic Command
- Bruce K. Holloway, military commander of Allied Forces
- Ridley McLean, rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and wrote the Bluejacket’s Manual, which is still used to teach naval recruits the basics of seamanship
- Major General Spurgeon Neel, pioneer in aeromedical evacuation
- Austin C. Shofner, World War II U.S. General
- Maurice F. Weisner, former Pacific Fleet Admiral
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)