Word: gs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the Chief, the General Staff consists of six Brigadier Generals. They are the Deputy Chief, the head of the War Plans Division, the four "Gs": Personnel (G-1), Military Intelligence (G-2), Operations & Training (G3) and Supply (G-4). Unlike their boss, V. M. I.-man Marshall, all of today's General Staff's Division Chiefs are West Pointers. All are field soldiers, two have had diplomatic service in Europe or Asia, all are young as U. S. general staffs go (the youngest 55, the eldest 60). Caught between wars, soldiers of an army which was largely...