About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: United States Army Vice Chiefs of Staff, Alexander Haig, Eric Shinseki, John William Vessey, Jr., Barksdale Hamlett, George W. Casey, Jr., Creighton Abrams, Lyman Lemnitzer, Frederick C. Weyand, J. Lawton Collins, J. H. Binford Peay III, Maxwell R. Thurman, Dennis Reimer, Peter W. Chiarelli, Arthur E. Brown, Jr., Frederick Kroesen, George Decker, Walter T. Kerwin, Jr., Richard A. Cody, Gordon R. Sullivan, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, John A. Wickham, Jr., Bruce Palmer, Jr., Jack Keane, Clyde D. Eddleman, Wade H. Haislip, William W. Crouch, John H. Tilelli, Jr., Ralph E. Haines, Jr., Robert W. RisCassi, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Charles L. Bolte, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Ronald H. Griffith, John E. Hull, Williston B. Palmer, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, Vice Chief of the Air Staff. Excerpt: Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (December 2, 1924 - February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the second-highest ranking officer in the Army, and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe commanding all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe. A veteran of the Korean War and Vietnam War, Haig was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart. Haig was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia. He was the middle of three children of Alexander Meigs Haig, Sr., a Republican lawyer, and his wife Regina Anne Murphy. When Haig was 10, his father, aged 38, died of cancer, and his Irish American mother raised her children in the Catholic church. He attended Saint Joseph's Prepar...
