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Eddiejhin · Jun 14, 2010, 01:33 PM

How many one, two, three and four star generals are in America??

Eddiejhin · Jun 14, 2010, 01:34 PM

[QUOTE=Eddiejhin;2393432]How many one, two, three and four star generals are in America??

Fr_Chuck · Jun 14, 2010, 05:52 PM

Retired? Reserve ? Active duties ?

What branch of servivce ?

excon · Jun 20, 2010, 07:47 AM

Hello E:

I don't know how many there ARE, but there is a statute on how many there CAN be. The United States Code explicitly limits the total number of generals that may be on active duty at any given time. The total number of active duty general officers is capped at 302 for the Army, 279 for the Air Force and 80 for the Marine Corps. For the Army and Air Force, no more than 16.3% of the service's active duty general officers may have more than two stars, and no more than 25% of those may have four stars. This corresponds to 12 Army generals, 11 Air Force generals and 3 Marine generals.

excon

jmjoseph · Jun 20, 2010, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by excon

Hello E:

I dunno how many there ARE, but there is a statute on how many there CAN be. The United States Code explicitly limits the total number of generals that may be on active duty at any given time. The total number of active duty general officers is capped at 302 for the Army, 279 for the Air Force and 80 for the Marine Corps. For the Army and Air Force, no more than 16.3% of the service's active duty general officers may have more than two stars, and no more than 25% of those may have four stars. This corresponds to 12 Army generals, 11 Air Force generals and 3 Marine generals.

excon

I had to spread the rep, but this is a good, helpful, answer. Quite interesting too.