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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Colin Powell, Curtis LeMay, Commandant of the Marine Corps, James L. Jones, Chief of Naval Operations, Richard Myers, Peter Pace, Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Michael Mullen, Merrill McPeak, T. Michael Moseley, John William Vessey, Jr., George W. Casey, Jr., Joseph Ralston, William J. Crowe, James T. Conway, Maxwell D. Taylor, Hugh Shelton, Hoyt Vandenberg, Creighton Abrams, John Shalikashvili, Nathan Farragut Twining, James L. Holloway III, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, James Cartwright, Edmund Giambastiani, George Scratchley Brown, Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman, Thomas Hinman Moorer, Michael Hagee, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Peter Schoomaker, Carlisle Trost, Director of the Joint Staff, J. Lawton Collins, Gary Roughead, Robert T. Herres, John P. McConnell, Gregory S. Newbold, David E. Jeremiah, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Joint Staff Information Management Division, William Owens, David Charles Jones, Thomas D. White, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Robert Conway. Excerpt: Colin Luther Powell (pronounced; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987-1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-1993), holding the latter position during the Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Colin Luther Powell was born on April 5, 1937 in Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, to Jam...
