Obscure American history trivia

Washington and Pershing

 

This post also brought up one of minor childhood annoyances: why a Lieutenant General is ranked higher than a Major General. I now know why, but it irked me as a kid.

 

Washington and Omar Bradley.

 

This political organization borrowed its name from the emblem used by the Freedom Party in Lowndes County, Alabama.

 

It's Washington and Pershing. The title has been discontinued.

 

Side note, if in the future, anyone is promoted to million star general, Washington automatically and posthumously gets promoted to the same rank.
It's a law that no military officer ever outrank George.

 

Seriously?

 

I don't know the technicalities, but there was something passed in '76 and signed by Ford to coincide with the bicentennial to always keep Washington at whatever highest general we have.

 

Not unless trump wins in 2020.

I so want to say tea party, but likely not.

 

Nope, not the tea party. They take their name from David Koch’s love of pot...

 

The law promoted Washington to General of the Armies and specified it was then and forever the highest rank possible, which caused it to be referred to as a six-star General, because five-star was the actual highest rank.

Pershing was also General of the Armies, but he had only four stars because, at the time, that was the highest rank. They proposed a six-star insignia for him when the five-star rank was created, but it was never passed, for whatever reason.

 

Hint: it shares part of its name with a recent overrated superhero movie.