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    Randolph McCall Pate (February 11, 1898 – July 31, 1961) was a United States Marine Corps general who served as the 21st Commandant of the Marine Corps...
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    1958. It was sponsored by Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bunting Pate, the wife of General Randolph M. Pate, and commissioned on 1 May 1959. After shakedown in the...
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    series South Park Randolph M. Pate (1898–1961), United States Marine Corps general Randolph E. Paul (1890–1956), American lawyer Randolph Perkins (1871–1936)...
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  • politician Randolph M. Pate (1898–1961), US Marine Commandant Richard Pate (1516–1588), English landowner, politician, and founder of Pate's Grammar School...
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  • commanding generals became the Commandant of the Marine Corps (Randolph M. Pate, Alfred M. Gray Jr. and James L. Jones) and another three commanding generals...
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  • services: Two Marine Corps Commandants, Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. and Randolph M. Pate, and Chiefs of Staff of the Army, George C. Marshall and the Air Force...
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    original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2012. Leighton, Richard M.; Robert W Coakley (1995). United States Army in World War II – The War Department...
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    Owens (2 awards) Peter Pace Randolph M. Pate Frank E. Petersen Donald L. Pilling William H. Plackett John Cyril Porte Carol M. Pottenger Colin Powell William...
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    recruit training in May 1956 after being ordered to do so by Commandant Randolph M. Pate following the Ribbon Creek incident, which involved the accidental...
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    World War II Crawford, Danny J.; Robert V. Aquilina; Ann A. Ferrante; Lena M. Kaljot; Shelia P. Gramblin (2001). "The 2d Marine Division and Its Regiments"...
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    the town with Beaufort and other communities to the north. General Randolph M. Pate (1898–1961), Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1956-1959 "ArcGIS REST...
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    Lt. Col. Merrill B. Twining Asst. CoS for Logistics (D-4): Lt. Col. Randolph M. Pate 1st Marine Regiment Colonel Clifton B. Cates Exec. ofc.: Lt. Col. Julian...
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    the new tri-service designation system. On 9 January 1958, General Randolph M. Pate, Commandant of the Marine Corps, wrote to the Chief of Naval Operations...
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    a peak from 1956 to 1960, when Commandant Randolph M. Pate encouraged use. However, his successor, David M. Shoup, quickly made them optional and discouraged...
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    the billet and went on to become commandant, as well as six others: Randolph M. Pate, Leonard F. Chapman Jr., Robert H. Barrow, Paul X. Kelley, James F...
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    Derby, and went on to win the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. Randolph M. Pate, then the commander of the 1st Marine Division, gave Reckless a battlefield...
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    Arlington County, Virginia. The 39th and current commandant is General Eric M. Smith. The responsibilities of the commandant are outlined in Title 10, Section...
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    attached to the staff of the 1st Marine Division under Major General Randolph M. Pate. At the time of his arrival, the 1st Division was stationed along the...
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    Vandenberg and Curtis LeMay. By 1956, even Marine Corps commandant Randolph M. Pate had his four-year tenure split into consecutive two-year terms, despite...
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    left Quantico in August 1956 to assume duty the following month at Camp H. M. Smith as Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, Honolulu, T.H....
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    on October 25, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2022. "First Female Cadets at V.M.I. Are in Class and in Uniform". The Associated Press. The New York TImes...
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    35 (1896–1990) 4 Randolph M. Pate 1 Jan 1956   Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps (CMC), 1956–1959. 4 1921 (VMI) 35 (1898–1961) 5 David M. Shoup 1 Jan 1960...
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    and East Berlin, now being taken over by the 7th Marines. As General Randolph M. Pate, the division's commander, immediately realized: "The loss of Outpost...
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    under the command of new 1st Marine Division commander, Major General Randolph M. Pate, and also took part in another prisoner exchange, Operation Big Switch...
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    2 awards Joseph K. PaskVan II Randolph M. Pate, 2 awards with Combat "V" George S. Patton Elizabeth A. Pesut Joel M. Peterson David Petraeus Leroy A...
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    company. 1946. p. 67. Meid, Pat, Lieutenant Colonel, USMCR; Yingling, James M., Major, USMC (1972). U.S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 (PDF). Vol...
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    Alexander M. Kowalzyk, William L. Knickerbocker, Leland R. Lampman, William H. Leahy, William F. Royall, Willard A. Saunders, Brooke Schumm, Francis M. McAlister...
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    Military Secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Randolph M. Pate from 1958 to 1960. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general...
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    the U.S. Navy's Officer Personnel System, 1793–1941. 2001. p. 784 William M. McBride. Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945. JHU...
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    the Marine Corps and deputy to Quartermaster Major generals Ion M. Bethel and Roy M. Gulick in September 1957 and was co-responsible for the support...
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