Major General Wendell Cushing Neville who won the Medal of Honor as a Captain at Vera Cruz. He was one of three persons to receive both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor. Alexander A. Vandergrift was the second Commandant to win the Medal of Honor (at Guadalcanal) ane the third was David M. Shoup as a Colonel at Tarawa.
Brigadier General Jacob Zeilin.
archibold henderson
Samuel Nicholas was the First Commandant of the Marine Corps. He along with Robert Mullen created the Marine Corps
From 1775 to the present (January 2010), there have been 34 Commandants of the Marine Corps. The first Commandant of the Marine Corps was Samuel Nichols. The current Commandant of the Marine Corps is Gen James T. Conway (since November 14, 2006). See related links for more information about and a list of Commandants of the Marine Corps.
Brigadier General Archibald Henderson who held the position of Commandant of the Marine Corps for 38 years and served in the Corps for 53 years. He lived in the same house for 38 years at the Marine Corps Barracks in Washington DC that he forgot that it was property of the US Government and willed it to his heirs.
James F. Amos on 22 October 2010.
The Commander-in-Chief in the US Military is the President of the United States. That applies to all of the services. The Joint Chiefs of Staff report to the President and take orders from him.
Some consider it to have been Archibald Sommers who was the first Sergeant Major in the Marine Corp and received that rank on 1 January 1801. The first to hold the billet of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps was Wilbur Bestwick from 23 May 1957 until 31 August 1959.
Samuel Nicholas.
Captain and Major.
General Alfred M. Gray, Jr. He wanted his official picture taken that way to remind the Marines that everyone in the Corps was a rifleman.
Spanish Marine Corps is oldest: since 1537 Dutch Marine Corps (Korps Mariniers) 2nd oldest: since 1665
There was no such thing as the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps until 1957. The first Sergeant Major in the Marine Corps was Sergeant Major Archibald Sommers who became the Corps' first Sergeant Major in 1801.
Opha Mae Johnson was the first Woman Marine in the U.S. Marine Corps.