brigadier general
noun
: a commissioned officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who ranks above a colonel and whose insignia is one star
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In 1866, Daniel Harris Reynolds, former Confederate brigadier general, announced a reunion of Reynolds' Arkansas Brigade in November to provide for widows and orphans as well as disabled and needy veterans.
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Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
Bacon — a former brigadier general in the Air Force who specialized in intelligence — took a swipe at the White House after The Atlantic on Wednesday published the full text exchange from Signal chat, which Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly included on.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
The retired brigadier general said the conversations among national security leaders through the messaging app should have been held offline due to their highly sensitive information and susceptibility to hackers or foreign adversaries.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
In the aftermath of the coup attempt, ten Kemalist colonels who had been sentenced to prison in the Sledgehammer-Ergenekon mass trials were promoted to positions as brigadier generals and rear admirals.
—Gonul Tol, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2016
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Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
Bacon — a former brigadier general in the Air Force who specialized in intelligence — took a swipe at the White House after The Atlantic on Wednesday published the full text exchange from Signal chat, which Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly included on.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
The retired brigadier general said the conversations among national security leaders through the messaging app should have been held offline due to their highly sensitive information and susceptibility to hackers or foreign adversaries.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
In the aftermath of the coup attempt, ten Kemalist colonels who had been sentenced to prison in the Sledgehammer-Ergenekon mass trials were promoted to positions as brigadier generals and rear admirals.
—Gonul Tol, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2016
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“Brigadier general.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brigadier%20general. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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