Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Some of his more notable later performances include: Money Train, as a psychotic pyromaniac who terrifies toll booth operators ; Lone Star, in a rare leading role as a Texas sheriff charged with solving a decades-old case ; as Deputy Dwayne Looney in director Joel Schumacher's 1996 film A Time to Kill ( based on the John Grisham novel ); and as a homophobic Marine Corps colonel in American Beauty, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Aras Habib was a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters and the long-term director of intelligence for Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ).

Reverted to basic rank of major and was director of the Army War College, 1919 – 1920 ; was promoted to colonel of cavalry and assigned as commander, District of Arizona, 1920 – 1921 ; was promoted to brigadier general in the Regular Army, April 1921 ; served as commandant of the United States Army Cavalry School, 1921 – 1923 ; commanded the Coast Artillery District of Manila, 1923 – 1924 ; was promoted to major general and assigned as chief of cavalry, 1924 – 1926 ; was assistant chief of staff, G – 3, of the Army, 1926 – 1927, then commanded the Fourth Corps Area, 1927, the Panama Canal Division, 1927 – 1928, the Panama Canal Department, 1928 – 1930, and the Ninth Corps Area, 1930 – 1935 ; was commandant of the Army War College, 1935 ; was promoted to general, October 1935 ; was chief of staff of the United States Army, October 2, 1935 – August 31, 1939 ; Malin Craig Chief of Staff of the United States Army | U. S. Army Chief of staff ( in the centre of the pictire ) riding in an Armistice Day parade with Fulgencio Batista ( on left in the picture ) in Washington D. C .,.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the 14th Infantry in 1904 and later was transferred to the 19th Infantry and became the director of the U. S. Army War College from 1904 to 1906.

Promoted to colonel in April 1957, Jones became director of materiel and later deputy commander for maintenance of SAC's 93rd Bombardment Wing at Castle AFB, California.

He plays a film director in Dennis Hopper's ill-fated The Last Movie ( 1971 ); an Army colonel in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ); a war correspondent in his own The Big Red One ( scene deleted in the original release, restored in the reconstructed version ), a talent agent in his film White Dog ( 1981 ), and a cameraman in Wim Wenders ' The State of Things ( 1982 ).

Retired United States Air Force colonel, test pilot and electrical engineer, Dr. Frank Corvin ( Eastwood ), who designed the original Skylab guidance systems from which the Soviet satellite's system had been copied, is asked to help, despite the longstanding animosity between the engineer and project director Bob Gerson ( James Cromwell ).

He was promoted to temporary colonel, January 1945, and permanent captain, June 1946, and major, July 1948 ; commanded the 63d Infantry in the Korean occupation, 1945 – 1946 ; was chief of plans and operations of the First United States Army, 1947 – 1949 ; was instructor of tactics and then director of instruction at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, 1949 – 1951 ; concurrently completed the basic airborne course ; and graduated from the Army War College, 1952.

At the end he was contemporaneously royal Polish colonel ( since 1736 ), electoral Saxon major general ( since 1746 ), superintendent of the Saxon building authority in Poland ( since 1721 ), with the title director ( since 1736 ), remunerated for each function separately.

In 1942, at the personal request of General ' Hap ' Arnold, Colonel Cyrus R. Smith, formerly president and director of American Airlines, was commissioned a colonel in ATC and made its executive officer, thereafter assuming the positions of Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander.

During the German-Soviet War, Shcherbakov served as the head of the political directorate of the Red Army ( with the rank of colonel general ) in Moscow, and at the same time was director of the Soviet Information Bureau.

* The director's staff element comprising the deputy director, an O-6 colonel, and administrative assistants

In 2004, Chen Feng-lin ( 陳鳳麟 ), a colonel of the National Security Bureau's Special Service Center's logistics department confessed that he leaked classified information regarding security measures at President Chen Shui-bian's (: zh: 陳水扁 ) residence as well as the president's itinerary to Peng Tzu-wen ( 彭子文 ), a former director of the center who retired as a major general.

Born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey ; educated in the public schools, by private tutor, and at the New York University School of Commerce at New York City ; began his career as a recording violinist for Thomas Edison in 1915 and later held executive positions with the Edison Enterprises ; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps 1917-1919 ; lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve 1929-1932 ; colonel in the New Jersey National Guard 1941-1943 ; member of the New Jersey Workmen's Compensation Investigating Commission 1932-1933 ; New Jersey director of the Federal Housing Administration 1934-1935, and as deputy and later as assistant administrator at Washington, D. C. from 1935 to 1938 ; presidential elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket ; member of the New Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942 ; member of the board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1943 ; commissioner of the Port of New York Authority in 1943 ; appointed on November 26, 1943, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Warren Barbour and served from November 26, 1943, to December 7, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified ; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1944 ; chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs ( Seventy-eighth United States Congress ); resumed his former business pursuits ; died in New York City, New York ;.

Following the withdrawal of the French, the VNA became the ARVN and Thiệu was the head of the Vietnamese National Military Academy for four years before becoming a division commander and colonel.

The movie inaccurately portrays Sheridan as a colonel and the commandant of the U. S. Military Academy before the start of the Civil War.

He joined the army of the Russian Empire in 1901 and graduated from the Nicholas General Staff Academy in 1910, reaching the rank of colonel in the Caucasus Grenadiers division during World War I.

He entered the Prussian Guards in 1849, and was appointed to the general staff in 1861 as a captain ; after three years of staff service he returned to regimental duty, but was soon reappointed to the staff, and lectured at the Prussian Military Academy, becoming major in 1865 and lieutenant colonel in 1869.

Clive was born in Saint-Malo, France, to an English colonel, and he attended Stonyhurst College and subsequently Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor.

Graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1856, Lee was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment ( later redesignated the 5th Cavalry Regiment ), which was commanded by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and in which his uncle, Robert E. Lee, was lieutenant colonel.

Completing his studies at the Nicholas General Staff Academy in 1890 with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was posted as a senior adjutant in the headquarters of the 1st Army Corps in the St. Petersburg Military District.

After the tour he retired from rugby but in his military career, he rose to the rank of colonel, led him to the command of a battalion in Northern Ireland, thence to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, where he was commander of Old College and Victory College.

Francis Henney Smith was a United States Military Academy graduate, United States Army second lieutenant, college professor, including teacher at West Point, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia Militia general, first superintendent of Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) and its rebuilder after the American Civil War and noted mathematician.

Their son, James H. Sands, also achieved the rank of Rear Admiral in the U. S. Navy and served as Superintendent of the Naval Academy, while another son, George Henry Sands ( 1855 – 1920 ), was a colonel in the US Army and served in Cuba during the Spanish American War.

George's older brother Morgan graduated with the United States Military Academy at West Point class of 1906, and served for many years as an ordnance officer, retiring in 1932 as a colonel.

Students were, and probably still are, admitted to the Academy in the ranks of lieutenant colonel, colonel, and Major General ( one star ).

Johnston returned to the Texas Army during the Mexican-American War under General Zachary Taylor as a colonel of the 1st Texas Rifle Volunteers.

Another Abergavenny born soldier, Thomas Monaghan received his VC for defending his colonel during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

Davis was still in Mississippi during the Black Hawk War of 1832 but, at its conclusion, his colonel Zachary Taylor assigned him to escort the chief Black Hawk to prison.

The coup leader, Saleh Ould Hanenna, a former army colonel sacked for opposing Taya's pro-Israel policies, was not captured or killed during the coup.

In his final year ( 1943 ), he was put on probation for being insubordinate to a visiting army colonel during maneuvers.

He escapes retribution, however, after saving the life of a Whig colonel during the battle.

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

Filitov was recruited by GRU colonel and British agent Oleg Penkovskiy, and offered his services to the CIA after the deaths of his wife and two sons ; the latter two were killed during their service in the Red Army.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

After being severely wounded during the battle of Eylau ( 1807 ), Chabert, a famous colonel of the cuirassiers, was erroneously recorded as dead and buried unconscious with French casualties.

Bunting had served as a colonel in the Confederacy during the Civil War before establishing himself in Indianapolis ; General Lew Wallace, who was on the Union side during the War and was a resident of Montgomery County, spoke at the dedication of the cornerstone in 1875.

It notes encounters with the " White Rajah " of Sarawak, with Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico ; and service as a Union major and as a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War.

* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ), a doctor, a legislator, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War

In Green Lantern: The New Corps, during his weeks-long adventure in space, Rayner first recruited Magaan Van ' n Intraktus of the planet Van ' n, Hammeroon, a bounty hunter from Ilskado System, Anya Savenlovich, a lieutenant colonel from the Soviet Air Forces who was in suspended animation after she participated in a space mission in 1964, Garl Rathbone, a miner from the debris belt over the planet Daffith, and Sool, a judge from Daffith.

Also prominent were Mordecai Hord, a native of Louisa County and prominent early explorer, who lived on his plantation called Hordsville ; and Col. John Dillard, born in Amherst County, Virginia in 1751, wounded at the Battle of Princeton during the Revolution, and later a member of the Committee of Safety and a colonel in the Virginia forces.

* Benjamin Cleveland ( 1738 – 1806 ), colonel in the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War.

Perhaps his most enduring achievement came when as a colonel during the Mexican War, he led a battalion of Mormons from Missouri to California.

Trumbull's children were also influential in the war effort: Joseph Trumbull was a colonel in the Continental Army, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was secretary to George Washington, and John Trumbull served first as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide during the war.