Talk:Lieutenant general (United States)

Requested move
Lieutenant General (United States) → Lieutenant general (United States) — To conform with the grammar guidelines set forth by Wiki:MOSCAPS —Neovu79 (talk) 03:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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 * Any additional comments: Neovu79 (talk) 03:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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 * Support Wiki:MOSCAPS states: Military ranks follow the same capitalization guidelines as titles (see above). Thus, one would write "Brigadier General John Smith", or "John Smith was a brigadier general". While general use of ranks is most commonly in front of an officer's name, in article form, and grammar, ranks are not capitalized. The U.S. Code of law also use standardized grammar specifically which establishes regular ranks for federal uniformed officers. Neovu79 (talk) 03:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Oppose this and the handful of similar moves. If this long running discussion is to be reopened, there should at least be a centralised discussion. Andrewa (talk) 05:00, 21 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support, although I would prefer a solution like this one through centralized discussion (but then again, the MOS can be considered a centralized discussion of course). Fram (talk) 12:46, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Four star Generals
Under the section "Famous American Lieutenant Generals," isn't it kind of silly to have all these guys who went on to four or five stars? Obviously, at some point, they were lieutenant generals. You could just as easily put them under "Famous American 2nd Lieutenants" or "Famous American Colonels." This should probably be limited to people whose careers topped off at Lieutenant General, or in the case of someone like Washington, was one, but was posthumously promoted. Grant I would keep too, because until they created a new rank in 1866, as a Lieutenant General he had gone as far as he could go. --Nobunaga24 02:33, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

George Washington
Note that I changed the article to say that Washington was a Lieutenant General when he was alive. - Shaheenjim 05:56, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger of article
I have reverted the unauthorized merge of this article into General (United States). The reasons are listed under Talk:General_%28United_States%29. -OberRanks 03:23, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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Space Force flag
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Could the highlight be due to lighting or something? Since this image shows it as completely black. Skjoldbro (talk) 07:31, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * That source doesn't really have any specs on the flags, but we may be able to make that work, so we'll go with it. Neovu79 (talk) 08:07, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Suggested edit/addition
I'm not good with technology & don't know how to edit wikipedia let alone know any of its guidelines or etiquette, but I'd like to suggest adding Lieutenant General Kenneth L Tallman, USAF, who was also president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for years after Air Force retirement. He may have done other things but I knew & respected him in his capacity as president of that university. 217.180.201.209 (talk) 03:59, 11 December 2023 (UTC)