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==Military== {{see also|List of Italian American Medal of Honor recipients}} *Sgt. [[John Basilone]] - [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]], [[Medal of Honor]] recipient of [[World War II]] *Major [[John Belli]] - Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army 1792–1794 *Corporal [[Anthony Casamento]] - [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]], Medal of Honor recipient of World War II *[[Christopher G. Cavoli]] - commander of [[United States European Command]] and [[Supreme Allied Commander Europe]] *[[Lieutenant general (United States)|Lieutenant General]] [[Peter W. Chiarelli]] * Lieutenant General [[United States Southern Command|Joseph P. DiSalvo]] - Military Deputy Commander of [[United States Southern Command]] * General [[Curtis Scaparrotti]], Commander of United States European Command *Col. [[Luigi Palma di Cesnola]] - [[American Civil War|Civil War]] Union [[Cavalry]] officer, and [[Medal of Honor]] recipient *Lt Col [[Rick Francona]] - [[United States Air Force|U S Air Force]] officer *[[Major (United States)|Major]] [[Don Gentile]] (Dominic Salvatore Gentile) (1920–1951) - [[United States Air Force|US Air Force]] officer *[[Bancroft Gherardi]] - rear admiral of the US Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. The first Italian-American admiral in the US Navy. *[[Edmund P. Giambastiani]] - [[Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]] *[[Giovanni Martini]] - trumpeter; only member of Custer's army to leave the site of the [[Battle of the Little Big Horn]] alive *[[General (United States)|General]] [[Raymond T. Odierno]] - incumbent [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army]] *[[Peter Pace]] - [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]], [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]] *[[Antonio Pierro]] - lived to be one of the oldest [[surviving veterans of World War I]] *[[Joseph L. Romano]] *[[William B. Taliaferro]] - Confederate general, of Anglo-Italian descent. Though his ancestors came from England to the colonies, his Taliaferro ancestors were originally from Italy. *[[Vito Trause]] - World War II [[prisoner of war]] * [[Walter Schirra]] - naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury *Maj. Gen. [[Francis D. Vavala]] - Adjutant General, [[Delaware Army National Guard]] *[[Humbert Roque Versace]] - [[United States Army]] officer and [[POW]] in Vietnam *Gen. [[Anthony Zinni]] - [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]], former Commander in Chief of [[United States Central Command|U.S. Central Command]] (CENTCOM)
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