United States Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee | |
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U.S. Delegation to the NATO Military Committee | |
Type | Senior military representative |
Abbreviation | USMILREP [1] |
Member of | NATO Military Committee |
Reports to | Chair of the NATO Military Committee |
Seat | Brussels, Belgium |
Appointer | The President with Senate advice and consent |
Term length | Not fixed; 2–3 years |
Inaugural holder | Omar Bradley |
Formation | 1950 |
Deputy | Deputy United States Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee |
The United States military representative to the NATO Military Committee (USMILREP) is the senior uniformed representative of the United States Armed Forces on the NATO Military Committee. The appointee, an officer of the United States Armed Forces at the rank of lieutenant general or vice admiral, represents the United States on the NATO Military Committee and is responsible for articulating and providing military advice to the Chair of the NATO Military Committee. The representative has a deputy who holds the pne-star rank of brigadier general or rear admiral.
The position was initially a four-star billet from 1950 to 1993, but was downgraded in order to grant precedence to the director of strategic plans and policy of the Joint Staff, a three-star officer who is dual-hatted as the senior member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Military Staff Committee.
The present USMILREP is Lieutenant General E. John Deedrick, who assumed the position in September 2021.
No. | Portrait | U.S. Military Representative | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Service branch |
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1 | General of the Army Omar Bradley (1893–1981) [lower-alpha 1] | September 1950 | August 15, 1953 | ~2 years, 348 days | U.S. Army | |
2 | General J. Lawton Collins (1896–1987) | August 15, 1953 | March 1956 | ~2 years, 199 days | U.S. Army | |
3 | Leon W. Johnson (1904–1997) | GeneralApril 1956 | April 1958 | ~2 years, 30 days | U.S. Air Force | |
4 | Admiral Walter F. Boone (1898–1995) | April 1958 [3] | May 1960 [3] | ~2 years, 30 days | U.S. Navy | |
5 | Clark L. Ruffner (1903–1982) | GeneralMay 1960 | October 1962 [4] | ~2 years, 153 days | U.S. Army | |
6 | Dean C. Strother (1908–2000) | GeneralNovember 1962 | March 1965 | ~2 years, 120 days | U.S. Air Force | |
7 | Alfred G. Ward (1908–1982) | AdmiralMarch 1965 | May 1968 | ~3 years, 61 days | U.S. Navy | |
8 | Berton E. Spivy Jr. (1911–1997) | GeneralJuly 1968 | July 1971 | ~3 years, 0 days | U.S. Army | |
9 | Theodore R. Milton (1915–2010) [lower-alpha 2] | GeneralAugust 1971 | July 1974 | ~2 years, 334 days | U.S. Air Force | |
10 | John P. Weinel (1916–2014) | AdmiralAugust 1974 | August 1977 [5] | ~3 years, 0 days | U.S. Navy | |
11 | William A. Knowlton (1920–2008) | GeneralAugust 1977 | June 1980 | ~2 years, 305 days | U.S. Army | |
12 | Richard L. Lawson (1929–2020) | GeneralJuly 1980 | July 1981 | ~1 year, 0 days | U.S. Air Force | |
13 | George E. R. Kinnear II (1928–2015) | AdmiralJuly 1981 | September 1982 | ~1 year, 62 days | U.S. Navy | |
14 | Roscoe Robinson Jr. (1928–1993) | GeneralSeptember 1982 | October 1985 | ~3 years, 30 days | U.S. Army | |
15 | Jack N. Merritt (1930–2018) | GeneralOctober 1985 | September 1987 | ~1 year, 335 days | U.S. Army | |
16 | Powell F. Carter Jr. (1931–2017) | AdmiralSeptember 1987 | October 1988 | ~1 year, 30 days | U.S. Navy | |
17 | James R. Hogg (born 1934) | AdmiralOctober 1988 | May 1991 | ~2 years, 212 days | U.S. Navy | |
18 | William D. Smith (1933–2020) | AdmiralMay 1991 | October 1993 | ~2 years, 153 days | U.S. Navy | |
19 | Daniel W. Christman (born 1943) | Lieutenant GeneralOctober 1, 1993 | October 7, 1994 | 1 year, 6 days | U.S. Army | |
20 | Thomas M. Montgomery (born 1941) | Lieutenant GeneralOctober 7, 1994 | September 1997 | ~2 years, 329 days | U.S. Army | |
21 | Michael J. Byron (born 1941) [lower-alpha 3] | Lieutenant GeneralSeptember 1997 | September 25, 1998 | ~1 year, 24 days | U.S. Marine Corps | |
22 | David S. Weisman (born 1946) | Lieutenant GeneralSeptember 25, 1998 | July 2001 | ~2 years, 279 days | U.S. Army | |
23 | Timothy A. Kinnan (born 1948) | Lieutenant GeneralJuly 2001 | August 2004 | ~3 years, 31 days | U.S. Air Force | |
24 | Edward Hanlon Jr. (born 1944) | Lieutenant GeneralSeptember 2004 | September 2006 | ~2 years, 0 days | U.S. Marine Corps | |
25 | William D. Sullivan (born 1950) | Vice AdmiralNovember 2006 | December 2009 | ~3 years, 30 days | U.S. Navy | |
26 | Richard K. Gallagher (born 1952) | Vice AdmiralJanuary 2010 | September 2012 | ~2 years, 244 days | U.S. Navy | |
27 | David R. Hogg (born 1958) | Lieutenant GeneralSeptember 2012 | September 2015 | ~3 years, 0 days | U.S. Army | |
28 | John N. Christenson (born 1958) | Vice AdmiralOctober 2015 | September 2018 | ~2 years, 335 days | U.S. Navy | |
29 | John K. Love | Lieutenant GeneralSeptember 2018 | September 2021 | ~3 years, 0 days | U.S. Marine Corps | |
30 | E. John Deedrick Jr. | Lieutenant GeneralSeptember 13, 2021 | Incumbent | 100 days | U.S. Army |
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