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A '''Major general''' is a high ranking, presidentially appointed, commissioned officer in the [[United States Armed Forces]]. Major generals outrank Brigadier Generals and are subordinate to Lieutenant Generals. Major general is considered a two-star rank, hence the term "two-star general".<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20general</ref> They serve as commanders of divisions of up to 16,000 troops. There are currently 99 active duty major generals in the [[United States Army]].<ref>http://usmilitary.about.com/od/army/a/majgen.htm</ref>
A '''Major general''' is a high ranking, presidentially appointed, commissioned officer in the [[United States Armed Forces]]. Major generals outrank Brigadier Generals and are subordinate to Lieutenant Generals. Major general is considered a two-star rank, hence the term "two-star general".<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20general</ref> They serve as commanders of divisions of up to 16,000 troops. There are currently 99 active duty major generals in the [[United States Army]].<ref>http://usmilitary.about.com/od/army/a/majgen.htm</ref>
Some major generals of the British variety are "know-alls....
:”I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
:I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
:I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
:From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
:I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
:I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
:About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news---
:With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
:I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,
:I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
:In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
:I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
:I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's,
:I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
:I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
:In conics I can floor peculiarities parablous.
:I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
:I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes,
:Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
:And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
:Then I can write a washing bill in Balylonic cuneiform,
:And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform;
:In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
:I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
:In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
:When I can tell at sight a chassepôt rifle from a javelin,
:When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
:And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
:When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
:When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery:
:In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
:You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee---
:For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
:Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
:But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
:I am the very model of a modern Major-General”.
(From "Pirates of Penzance" words of W.S. Gilbert.)
==Notes==
==Notes==