Commandant of the Marine Corps

Command flag of the Commandant of the Marine Corps

Commandant of the Marine Corps ( CMC ) is the Chief of Staff of the US Marine Corps . He is addressed as Commandant .

The post of commandant is filled by a general of the USMC, who is also a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the general staff of the US armed forces . He is assisted by the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps as the highest NCO .

Due to the close ties and common past of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps, the Commandant is administratively subordinate to the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV). Operationally, the Commandant is not subordinate to the Chief of Naval Operations , the Chief of Staff of the US Navy, but is like this part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Like the other members of the Joint Chiefs , it is the commandant's job to ensure that the troops in his armed forces are well organized and ready for action, and to advise the US President . However, he has no direct authority over the operations of his troops. The commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands assume direct command of the troops .

Marine Barracks has been based in Washington, DC since 1806

history

With the passage of Public Law 416, 82nd Congress on June 28, 1952, the Commandant became a voting member of the Chiefs of Staff for matters directly related to the USMC. On October 20, 1978, Section 141, Title 10 of the United States Code was added to Public Law 485, 95th Congress . This addition now included that the commandant was from now on an equal member of the chiefs of staff.

By Public Law 90-22 of 5 June 1967 entered into force on 1 January 1969 which the section 5201 (a), Title 10 of the US Code added, it was determined that the US president the commander on the recommendation and Appointed with the benevolence of the U.S. Senate for a four-year term. He also has the right to appoint him for a further four-year term in times of war.

List of incumbents

No.	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment
38	David H. Berger	11th July 2019	---
37	Robert B. Neller	September 24, 2015	July 10, 2019
36	Joseph F. Dunford	17th October 2014	September 24, 2015
35	James F. Amos	October 22, 2010	17th October 2014
34	James T. Conway	November 13, 2006	October 22, 2010
33	Michael W. Hagee	January 13, 2003	November 13, 2006
32	James L. Jones	July 1, 1999	January 12, 2003
31	Charles C. Krulak	July 1, 1995	June 30, 1999
30th	Carl E. Mundy, Jr.	July 1, 1991	June 30, 1995
29	Alfred M. Gray, Jr.	July 1, 1987	June 30, 1991
28	Paul X. Kelley	July 1, 1983	June 30, 1987
27	Robert H. Barrow	July 1, 1979	June 30, 1983
26th	Louis H. Wilson, Jr.	1st January 1975	June 30, 1979
25th	Robert E. Cushman, Jr.	January 1, 1972	December 31, 1975
24	Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.	1st January 1968	December 31, 1971
23	Wallace M. Greene, Jr.	January 1, 1964	December 31, 1967
22nd	David M. Shoup	January 1, 1960	December 31, 1963
21st	Randolph M. Godfather	January 1, 1956	December 31, 1959
20th	Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.	January 1, 1952	December 31, 1955
19th	Clifton B. Cates	January 1, 1948	December 31, 1951
18th	Alexander A. Vandegrift	January 1, 1944	December 31, 1947
17th	Thomas Holcomb	December 1, 1936	December 31, 1943
16	John H. Russell, Jr.	March 1, 1934	November 30, 1936
15th	Ben H. Fuller	July 9, 1930	February 28, 1934
14th	Wendell C. Neville	March 5, 1929	July 8, 1930
13	John A. Lejeune	July 1, 1920	March 4, 1929
12	George Barnett	February 25, 1914	June 30, 1920
11	William P. Biddle	February 3, 1911	February 24, 1914
10	George F. Elliott	October 3, 1903	November 30, 1910
9	Charles Heywood	June 3, 1891	October 2, 1903
8th	Charles G. McCawley	November 1, 1876	January 29, 1891
7th	Jacob lines	June 10, 1864	October 31, 1876
6th	John Harris	January 7, 1859	May 1, 1864
5	Archibald Henderson	October 17, 1820	January 6, 1859
4th	Anthony Gale	March 3, 1819	October 8, 1820
interim	Archibald Henderson	September 16, 1818	March 2, 1819
3	Franklin Wharton	March 7, 1804	September 1, 1818
2	William W. Burrows	July 12, 1798	March 6, 1804
1	Samuel Nicholas	November 28, 1775	August 27, 1783