Brig. Gen. Leodis Jennings, G-3, Army National Guard, echoed those sentiments: "Brig. Gen. Johnson's promotion is significant on three levels - he is the first African American general in Arkansas ...

U.S. Army Human Resources Command's deputy commanding general became the Army's first-ever female African-American officer to obtain the rank of major general during her promotion and departure ...

Davis Sr. became the first African American to hold star rank in the U.S. Army and in the armed forces. He was promoted to brigadier general, temporary -- a situation with which he was all too ...

Hazel Johnson-Brown, 83, the first African American woman to become an Army general and a former chief of the Army Nurse Corps, died Aug. 5 en route to a hospital near her home in Wilmington ...

Lt. Gen. Milford H. Beagle will lead Fort Leavenworth after commanding the Army’s 10th Mountain Division. Beagle is the first African American commanding general at the military installation.

Gen. Charles Brown is the new Air Force chief of staff. Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, Jr. became the new Air Force chief of staff on Thursday, making history as the first African American to lead one ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — One of The Citadel's own is making history, becoming the first African American graduate ... to a three-star general in the U.S. Army. From private to Lieutenant ...

The USS Beloit, a littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with African American ... first Black woman to achieve the rank of major general in the United States ...