Obviously, he spent 35 years in the army, retired in 1993 as a four-star general.
He described the four-star general as "one of America's finest military leaders, a true patriot".
But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.
"He's the four-star general of the largest police force in the country and here he is, " Mr. Moreno said.
With a chest full of ribbons and decorations, seated in packed hearing room, the four-star general said progress has been made.
David McKiernan, the American four-star general who in October consolidated control over almost all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been adjusting U.S. tactics.
William "Kip" Ward, the first four-star general to command U.S. military operations in Africa, was demoted for excessive spending from duty at U.S. Africa Command (Africom).
But if Broadwell had, anyone with a password-cracking tool might have been able to snoop on her e-mails and discover her dalliance with a four-star general.
The probe has cast a shadow over the four-star general's distinguished military career, and delayed his appointment as Nato's next supreme allied commander, set for early 2013.
In his address last week on the state of international affairs, Retired four-star General Stan McChrystal said that millennials are struggling to translate their skills to the business world.
The retired four-star general is also credited with helping bring about the forging of successful alliances between US forces and Sunni tribes in Anbar province, in opposition to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Kirkpatrick), retired four-star general officers (Marine Corps Commandant Gen.
His duties at the White House, on Henry Kissinger's National Security Council and for Nixon, had been carried out while still under military orders and earned him a dizzy ascent, from colonel to four-star general in four years.
It was particularly noteworthy insofar as it permitted a vigorous exchange of views between three of the authors of the Center study -- former four-star General John Foss (USA, Ret..) , former Under Secretary of State Eugene V.
The Roundtable featured brief presentations concerning the findings of a blue-ribbon studyU.S. Forces on the Golan Heights: An Assessment of the Benefits and Costs, the study was signed by eleven high-ranking, former U.S. national security officials -- including five retired four-star general officers, three of whom served as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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McCaffrey, who resigned Thursday as a four-star Army general, added that the term "war on drugs" is inadequate to describe his new responsibility.
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O'Donnell had met Petraeus several years earlier at a Wounded Warriors event when the four-star Army general was commanding American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although he declined calls to run for President in 1996 and 2000, the retired four-star Army general has remained very much in the public eye since leaving public office.
Add to the mix published reports that General David Petraeus - one of America's most prominent military officers as the four-star commander of Central Command and a leading architect of the Iraq surge - sees the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" as a threat to American servicemen and women in his area of responsibility.
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