✯ Lieutenant Colonel in the French and Indian War
✯ Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
✯ Only president to lead troops during his presidency

✯ West Point graduate
✯ Training officer during WW I
✯ Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe
✯ 5-star General

✯ Elected Captain during the Black Hawk War

✯ Colonel in the Spanish-American War
✯ Led the 'Rough Riders' at San Juan Hill

✯ Dropped out of college to join the 3^rd Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army
✯ Rose to Major during the Revolutionary War

✯ Army 1791-1798
✯ Fought Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe
✯ War of 1812, Supreme Commander of the Army of the Northwest

✯ West Point graduate
✯ Served in the Mexican War
✯ Supreme Commander of the Union Army, Civil War
✯ Appointed full General after the war

✯ War of 1812; Seminole War; Black Hawk War
✯ Commanded the Army of Occupation, Mexican War

✯ Lieutenant Colonel, Civil War, rising to Major General
✯ Fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh and Chickamauga

✯ Colonel in command of 70^th Indiana Regiment: Civil War
✯ Promoted to command the 1^st Brigade of the
1^st Division of the XX Corps
✯ Given rank of Brigadier General

✯ Navy's youngest fighter pilot in 1943
✯ Shot down during attack on a Japanese-held island
✯ Distinguished Flying Cross

✯ Naval Academy graduate, class of 1946
✯ Engineering officer on the nuclear submarine Sea Wolf
✯ Served under Hyman Rickover

✯ Enlisted as a private in the Poland Guard, later merged into the 23^rd Ohio Infantry
✯ Eventually commissioned an officer
✯ By war's end, promoted to Brevet Major in the Union army

✯ Captain in WW I, serving as a battery commander in an artillery regiment in France
✯ He rallied his troops at one point by using profanity that he had 'learned while working on the Santa Fe railroad.'

✯ During preparation for Civil War, he was made Brigadier General & assigned to the quartermaster department
✯ Efficient at housing & outfitting the troops that poured into New York City
✯ Promoted within the state militia to Inspector General, then to Quartermaster General

✯ Commanded Navy PT-109, WW II

✯ 3 years in the U.S. Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit, WW II
✯ Discharged with rank of Captain
✯ Reserve officer in Army cavalry

✯ Naval officer in the Pacific during WW II
✯ Naval passenger control officer for the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command
✯ Rose to rank of Lieutenant Commander

✯ After British captured Hampton, VA in 1813, he organized a small militia company to defend Richmond
✯ No attack ensued, Company was dissolved

✯ Commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy during WW II
✯ Rose to rank of Lieutenant Commander
✯ Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with nine engagement stars and the Philippine Liberation

✯ Early opponent of the Civil War
✯ Stated they should just let the South go
✯ After Fort Sumter he joined a volunteer company composed of his Literary Society friends
✯ Major (eventually rising to Major General) in the 23^rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry

✯ Brigadier General during the Mexican War
✯ Led the 1^st Brigade in the newly created 3^rd Division
✯ Joined Scott's army in the Battle of Contreras
✯ Seriously injured in the battle, when his horse broke its leg and fell, pinning him underneath

✯ Texas Air National Guard

✯ Naval officer WW II
✯ Decorated by General Douglas MacArthur

✯ Fought in the American Revolution
✯ Major General in the Tennessee Militia
✯ Creek and Seminole Wars
✯ Major General in War of 1812

✯ As a Federalist, he initially opposed the War of 1812
✯ When the British invaded neighboring Maryland, he joined a volunteer light dragoon unit and served in the defense of Baltimore