Four-star generals are top-ranking in the Army, and only nine officers have ever earned the rank of five-star general. According to the Army's website, Hamilton began his job as a Commanding ...

The last Army four-star general known to have been outright fired was Gen. Kevin Byrnes, then the commander of the Army Training and Doctrine Command, in 2005.

The last Army four-star general fired for misconduct was Gen. Kevin Byrnes, who in 2005, as the head of the service's Training and Doctrine Command, was dismissed over an extramarital affair.

A four-star Army general was suspended on Friday after the Department of Defense learned he allegedly pressured an assessment panel to sign off on an officer deemed “unfit for command.”. Gen ...

The last Army four-star general fired for misconduct was Gen. Kevin Byrnes, who in 2005 as commander of the service’s Training and Doctrine Command, was dismissed over an extramarital affair.

WASHINGTON — The Army has exonerated a deceased four-star general who had been reprimanded for allegedly groping the wife of a subordinate officer in a decades-old case that tested the ...

The Army has removed one of the nation's 12 four-star generals, Army Gen. Charles Hamilton, from command following an investigation that determined he interfered in a subordinate's promotion.

The four-star general who heads the Redstone Arsenal-based Army Materiel Command was fired from his post after he was found to have interfered in getting a command job for a subordinate, the Army ...

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has fired a four-star general — one of just 12 in the entire service — following an investigation into accusations that he attempted to use his position to ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered military planners to cut the number of four-star generals and admirals in the military by 20%, a move that could axe eight or nine positions for senior ...