As stated in the United States Code, the number of four star generals has a limit in every department. For the US Army, the maximum is 230, Air force totals to 208, and for the Marine Corps is 60.
There are currently 11 four star generals in the u.s. Army today with normally twelve. The retired Gen. Stanley McCrystal was the twelfth, still not succeeded ( no one has taken his place yet on the four star gen. list ).
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.
So your answer is 12 4-star generals in the US Army.
There is one African American four star general in the US military. He is army General LLoyd A. Austin III
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GEN Ward and GEN Austin
probably about 3
Wrong, newly named Air Force Chief of Staff, who is black, was already a 4-star general.
The US Army had over 1,100 Generals during WW2.
4 star generals are in the US
15.129% of the US army Genrals have a PhD
Marshell
As the US Civil War unfolded, the US army was small and did not have many generals. In order to command all the Union recruits, new generals had to be appointed. In 1861, Lincoln appointed one hundred and twenty six generals.
There were approximately twelve four star generals in the US Army during 1945. However, due to damaged records and other mitigating factors, a precise count on the total number of generals, from one star up, is nearly impossible to come by at this time.
There are 40 Generals Currently on Active Duty. This does not count the Generals that are in the National Guard and Reserve who have been activated or otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_duty_United_States_four-star_officers
There are SEVERAL Generals. Did you have a specific one in mind?
Is there a Dennis Fredrickson Larsen, He states he is an Army General
There are SEVERAL Generals. Did you have a specific one in mind?
Custer and James Gavin
The most high profile Union general replacements involved the position of general in chief and generals commanding the Army of the Potomac. The powerful Army of the Potomac faced serious defeats in Virginia causing President Lincoln to find new generals for this army frequently. In the case of generals in chief, four generals held that position in the US Civil War. They were Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck and lastly US Grant. It is important to remember that these changes in command took place in a war of only four years.