Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on 6 July 2000 and served until his retirement on 7 July 2003.

Franks, after graduating from the Armed Forces Staff College, was posted to The Pentagon in 1976, where he served as an Army Inspector General in the Investigations Division.

From 1995-1997, General Franks commanded the 2nd Infantry Division, Korea.

General Franks ' awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ; Distinguished Service Medal ( two awards ); Legion of Merit ( four awards ); Bronze Star with Valor device and two oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ( two oak leaf clusters ); Air Medal with Valor Device ; Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device ; and a number of U. S. and foreign service awards.

For instance, they make a disputed claim that Franks threatened to fire General William Wallace, commander of the Army's V Corps, for saying to the press during that war that the enemy the U. S. was facing was different from the enemy the military had planned against.

General Tommy Franks declares Operation Anaconda over, terming it " an unqualified and complete success.

People of note born in Wynnewood include musician Roy Milton, General Tommy Franks, who commanded the invasion forces of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq, and Donna Shirley, who led the Mars Pathfinder project at JPL and James Allen, former NFL running back for the Chicago Bears and Houston Texans.

U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.

Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, and was also elevated to the rank of four-star general the same week.

Following the 2003 Iraq War and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, he assumed command of Central Command from General Tommy Franks.

General Tommy Franks later acknowledged that the dramatic increase in offensive sorties was an attempt to destroy the Iraqi defenses in much the same way as the air strikes at the beginning of the Gulf War had.

A U. S. Department of Defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in January 2001 and U. S. General Tommy Franks visited the country in May 2001, conveying a message from the Bush administration that the US considered Tajikistan " a strategically significant country ".

General Tommy Franks, who led both the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War, once called Feith " the dumbest fucking guy on the planet.

However, Ned Franks, a Canadian parliamentary expert, maintains that the Prime Minister still has the right to advise the Governor General to dissolve the parliament early and drop the writs for an election.

* U. S. General Tommy Franks reportedly estimated soon after the invasion that there had been 30, 000 Iraqi casualties as of April 9, 2003.

Franks was National Party candidate for for the 2008 General Election, being number 60 on the National Party list.

David Salisbury Franks ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1740 – 1793, Philadelphia ) was aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold during the American War of Independence.

After Franks was returned to active duty, General George Washington had him assigned to his command.

Seeking to clear his name definitively, Franks asked General Washington to initiate another court-martial, one that would investigate — rather than simply drop — the scurrilous charges against him.

Jones recently traveled to Iraq to meet with troops stationed there and U. S. General Tommy Franks.

According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U. S. military in the 2003 Iraq conflict, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent.

* David Franks ( 1740 – 1793 ), aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold during the American War of Independence

Franks, In The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, V. 11, pp. 35 – 36.

The Lawrence-themed play Ross by Terence Rattigan featured another Thomas-like character named Franks, who hectors General Allenby and Lawrence for photographs and interviews after the fall of Jerusalem.

The Trustees of the Foundation appointed Dr. Ray to that position with the stated expectation that he would succeed the present Secretary General upon the latter's eventual retirement.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

A ( perhaps apocryphal ) story is sometimes told of Beatty's retirement, that he canvassed in uniform in support of Conservative candidates in dockyard constituencies, presumably in the 1929 or 1931 General Elections.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

* 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies-such as Alexei Kosygin-the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.

In a dinner with Admiral Bokhari, Nawaz Sharif announced to promote General Musharraf as chairman joint chiefs while willingly approved the retirement papers of TP.

General Palmer would continue as president of the Utah line until retirement ( due to company re-organization ) in 1901.

Thus, no serious effort was ever made to promote LeMay to the rank of General of the Air Force, and the matter was eventually dropped after his retirement from active service in 1965.

Arno H. Luehman rose to the rank of Major General, USAF, before his retirement.

General Cooke was a cavalry officer whose military career spanned almost half a century, beginning with his graduation from West Point in 1827 to his retirement in 1873.

In the years after his 1980 retirement from the Army with the rank of Major General, Patton turned a Hamilton estate owned by his late father into the Green Meadows Farm, where he named the fields in honor of Vietnam soldiers who died under his command.

* Edwin W. Rawlings ( 1904 – 1997 ) – Born in Milroy, he served in the United States Air Force from 1929 to 1959, rising to the rank of four-star general ; after his retirement from military service, he went on to become president and board chairman of General Mills, based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

Perhaps the most interesting story concerning the retirement of Albert Reynolds is his relationship with the President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf.

During the Iraq disarmament crisis before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Blix was called back from retirement by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to lead United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in charge of monitoring Iraq.

For example, The 34th President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower reverted to his prior style " General Eisenhower " in retirement.

George Grunert was a United States Army cavalry officer who worked his way up through the ranks from private to retirement as a Lieutenant General.

In 1792 Anthony Wayne, a renowned hero of the American Revolutionary War, was encouraged to leave retirement and return to active service as Commander-in-Chief of the Legion with the rank of Major General.

* Lieutenant General Jim Parker ( 1929present ), a former Chief of Staff of the Irish Army from 1989 until his retirement in 1992, with a long and distinguished military career as an army officer

Polyakov was a CIA informant for more than 20 years before his retirement in 1980, and passed enormous amounts of information to American intelligence while he rose to the rank of General in the Soviet Army.

The permanent rank of lieutenant-general had last been awarded upon retirement to General Winfield Scott.

After retirement, General Truscott began work on his book Command Missions, which was published in 1954 ( ISBN 0-89141-364-2 ), and The Twilight of the U. S. Cavalry ( ISBN 0-7006-0932-6 ).

Soon after retirement, General Truscott helped evaluate officers as a member of the War Department Screening Board.

In retirement he became Director General of the Save the Children Fund.