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Events with high posterior probability

Ray Funnell	On 3 July 1987, Funnell succeeded Air Marshal Jake Newham as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), becoming the first graduate of RAAF College to attain the position ; he was also the first incumbent to possess a master's degree.
Theodor Hoffmann (admiral)	In 1985 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the People's Navy and Chief of Staff.
Wendell Cushing Neville	Promoted to major general in August 1920, he served as Assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps and later became Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force with headquarters in San Francisco.
Jock Stirrup, Baron Stirrup	Stirrup was promoted to air chief marshal and appointed Chief of the Air Staff on 1 August 2003.
Horatio Nelson Lay (admiral)	In 1948 he became Acting Commodore and sent to Naval HQ as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Plans and Air).
Earl E. Anderson	He was promoted to Lieutenant General in June 1971 and assumed duty as Commanding General Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLant), Norfolk, Virginia, in July 1971.
Muhammad Ghulam Tawab	In 1975, Tawab was promoted to Air Vice Marshal and appointed as Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force.
Hewitt T. Wheless	He was appointed senior Air Force member, Military Staff Committee, United Nations, in August 1967 in addition to his present duty.
Vusumuzi Masondo	He served in that post for only one month and on 1 June 2004 was appointed as Personnel Staff Officer to the then Chief of the SA National Defence Force, General Siphiwe Nyanda.
William Anderson (RAAF officer)	After relinquishing his temporary position as CAS, Anderson briefly reverted to his previous role as Air Member for Supply before taking over as Air Member for Personnel (AMP) in March 1940 ; he was succeeded in November by Air Vice-Marshal Henry Wrigley.
George Brett (general)	On 6 July 1942 Marshall radioed MacArthur to offer him Major General George Kenney or Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle as a replacement for Brett.
Patrick N. L. Bellinger	In March 1943, he was given command of the Atlantic Fleet Air Force.
Allan Walters	In May 1942, he joined Allied Air Forces Headquarters, South West Pacific Area (SWPA), in Melbourne as Assistant Director of Operations.
Oliver S. Picher	The following March he became inspector general of FEAF at Tokyo and a year later was named Director of Personnel in the command, with promotion March 8, 1952 to major general.
Walter C. Cowles	In March 1915, Cowles became one of the first full admirals in the history of the U. S. Navy when the three commanders in chief of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Asiatic Fleets were all advanced to the temporary rank of full admiral while so serving.
David House	He was succeeded by Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell on 14 January 1985.
Suzuki Kantar?	After stints as Commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, Commander of the IJN 2nd Fleet, then the IJN 3rd Fleet, then Kure Naval District, he became a full admiral on 3 August 1923.
Leland Hobbs	In August 1947, he was transferred to Fort McPherson, Georgia, where he was appointed the Deputy Commanding General of the Third United States Army under the command of lieutenant general Alvan C. Gillem.
Shigeru Iwasaki	In December 2010, General Iwasaki became the 31st Chief of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.
Vernon Sturdee	Sturdee became acting Commander in Chief on 1 December 1945.
Alan McNicoll	On 24 February 1965, McNicoll was promoted vice admiral and made Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) in succession to Vice Admiral Sir Hastings Harrington.
Walter Bedell Smith	Reluctantly, Marshall acceded to this request, and Smith took over as the chief-of-staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) on 15 September 1942.
Dan Halutz	On June 1, 2005, Halutz was officially appointed the eighteenth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and was awarded the rank of Rav-Aluf (Lieutenant General).
Paul F. Zukunft	Vice Admiral Zukunft was promoted to flag rank in 2006, and his five previous flag assignments include The Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and Stewardship ; Director of Response Policy, Assistant Commandant for Capability ; Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District and Director, Joint Interagency Task Force West.
Idris Hasan Latif	In 1974, Latif was promoted to the rank of air chief marshal, and posted as air officer in charge, administration, at Air Headquarters.
Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt	Dannatt was appointed Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (COMARRC) on 16 January 2003 and promoted to lieutenant general the same day.
John Whiteley (British Army officer)	In 1953 Whiteley was promoted General and took up his last appointment as chairman of the British Joint Services Mission, Washington, D. C. and UK Representative on the NATO Standing Group.
Robert Olds	The wartime stress of his command led to Olds' first heart attack in March 1942, resulting in his replacement in command by Harold L. George.
Stephen Dalton	He was promoted to Air Chief Marshal and appointed Chief of the Air Staff, and Air Aide-de-Camp to HM The Queen, on 31 July 2009.
Thomas Blamey	On 1 June 1918, Lieutenant General John Monash succeeded Birdwood as commander of the Australian Corps, and Blamey was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and replaced White as the corps Brigadier General General Staff (BGGS).
J. H. Binford Peay III	He was promoted to general on March 26, 1993 and appointed as the Army's twenty-fourth Vice Chief of Staff.
Patrick W. Timberlake	He was appointed director of operations and plans for British Air Chief Marshal Tedder in 1943, and took over as his Chief of Staff after the formation of the Mediterranean Air Command.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	In November 1945, Eisenhower returned to Washington to replace Marshall as Chief of Staff of the Army.
Shi Yunsheng	In November 1996, he was appointed as commander in chief of the entire PLA Navy.
Howard M. Fish	On May 1, 1978, he was assigned additional duties as assistant for readiness and North Atlantic Treaty matters, and as senior Air Force member, Military Staff Committee, United Nations.
Joseph Stilwell	With the establishment of the new South East Asia Command in August 1943, Stilwell was appointed Deputy Supreme Allied Commander under Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Ahsan Saleem Hyat	General Ahsan later became the Colonel-in-Chief of the Armoured Corps at the Armoured Corps Regimental Center, Nowshera on 5 May 2005 succeeding General Yusaf Khan, the previous Colonel-in-Chief.
Alan T. Baker	In 2006, Baker was promoted to rear admiral (lower half) and became the 16th Chaplain of the Marine Corps, succeeding Rear Admiral Robert Burt, who was promoted to become the U. S. Navy's Chief of Chaplains.
Mark Evans (general)	On 17 June 2007, Evans assumed command of Joint Task Force 633 (JTF663) -- Australia's contribution in the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO) to the Global War on Terror.
George Creasy	In 1943 he was made Chief Staff Officer for the planning and execution of the naval operations for the Normandy landings.
Colin Coulthard	His final promotion to Air Vice-Marshal was as head of the Defence Export Services Organisation, prior to his retirement in 1975.
Nguy?n V?n Vy	He rose to the rank of Lieutenant General, and was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in 1967.
Julien J. LeBourgeois	In May 1972, LeBourgeois was promoted to vice admiral and began an assignment as chief of staff to the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) in Norfolk, Virginia.
James L. Jones	As SACEUR, Jones led the Allied Command Operations (ACO), comprising NATO's military forces in Europe, from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium, Jones relinquished command as SACEUR on December 7, 2006, and was succeeded by U. S. Army Gen. John Craddock.
Alister Murdoch	Murdoch became Commandant of RAAF College in June 1952, gaining promotion to air commodore.
David Barno	After command in Afghanistan, General Barno was reassigned to The Pentagon in Washington, DC where he served briefly on the Army Staff as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM) for the US Army until his decision to retire in the spring of 2006.
Benny Gantz	On February 14, 2011 Gantz assumed command as the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Shay Avital	In December 2011, the Chief of General Staff ordered the formation of the Depth Corps for joint operations in the strategic depth, and appointed Major General Avital as head of the corps.
Hayao Tada	However, he was recalled to Japan on 14 August 1937 to become Vice Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff.
Hippolyte De La Rue	After completing his tenure at Richmond, De La Rue briefly took the role of senior air staff officer (SASO) at Central Area Command in October 1940.
Edward P. King	In 1940 he was sent to the Philippines where he was promptly promoted to Brigadier General ; he served as General Douglas MacArthur's second highest ranking ground officer, after General Jonathan Wainwright.
John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)	His responsibilities increased significantly when the Fleet Air Arm transferred from the Air Ministry to the Admiralty and he was re-designated Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air) in August 1937.
James L. Jones	Jones assumed duties as the commander of U. S. European Command on January 16, 2003, and supreme allied commander Europe the following day.
Adrian Cole (RAAF officer)	The same month, he was made Air Officer Commanding (AOC) RAF Northern Ireland, with the acting rank of air vice marshal, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, September 1943 In May 1943, Cole returned to Australia, taking over as AOC North-Western Area Command from Air Commodore Frank Bladin in July.
Joseph Taussig	In 1923, he was Assistant Chief of Staff, to Admiral Hillary P. Jones, Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet for six months.
Branko Mamula	After becoming Defence Minister in 1983 he was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.
William Fechteler	In August 1951, Admiral Fechteler was appointed Chief of Naval Operations, succeeding Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, who had died in office in July.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	The trustees of Columbia University refused to accept Eisenhower's resignation in December 1950, when he took an extended leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and he was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.
John Miles Steel	When Bomber Command was created from the Air Defence of Great Britain command in July 1936, Steel became its first Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief in the rank of Air Chief Marshal.
Abrar Hussain (general)	In 1968, General Abrar was commanding the Command and Staff College, Quetta, when he asked for early retirement due to some irreconcilable differences with GHQ.
Kiyohide Shima	Shima became a rear admiral on 15 November 1939 and was Chief of Staff of the Maizuru Naval District.
Guy Russell	A year later, he was appointed to a staff position, naval assistant to the Second Sea Lord, and promoted rear admiral in 1945.
John Boothman	His last appointment was as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Coastal Command, a position he held until April 1956, just prior to his retirement.
John Herbert Thomas Simpson	In his final appointment before retirement in 1959 Simpson was the eighth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps.
Angus Houston	On 4 July 2005, Houston was promoted to Air Chief Marshal and appointed Chief of the Defence Force (CDF).
Mohammad Haroon	He was appointed as Chief of Staff at Naval Headquarters in December 2002 and was promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral in the same month.
John A. Lejeune	Lejeune was appointed as Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps on 1 July 1920.
Robert L. Ghormley	In the rank of Vice Admiral, he served as Commander South Pacific Area and South Pacific Force in June -- October 1942, during the critical early stages of the campaign to seize and hold Guadalcanal and Tulagi.
Karl Koller (General)	Koller became the Chef der Luftwaffenführungsstabes ('' Chief of the Luftwaffe Operations Staff'') in October 1943, which essentially made him as assistant to the General Staff.
Benjamin Thurman Hacker	In 1982, he became Commander Fleet Air Mediterranean ; Commander Maritime Surveillance and Reconnaissance Forces, U. S. Sixth Fleet ; and Commander Maritime Air Forces Mediterranean simultaneously with headquarters in Naples, Italy.
Vladimir Kurasov	In June 1945, Kurasov was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany, then as Deputy Chief of the Central Group of Forces in Austria.
Walter Krueger	On 16 May 1941, he was promoted to lieutenant general, in command of the Third Army.
Alexey Maslov	In March 2000, he was appointed as chief of staff and first deputy army commander of 36th Army within the Siberian Military District.
John William Vessey, Jr.	Promoted to lieutenant general in September 1975, he became the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans.
Robert Fry	He assumed the post of Chief of Staff at the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood in May 2002 and remained in the job throughout the planning for and conduct of operations against Iraq.
Francis Dodd (general)	In 1951, Dodd became deputy chief of staff for General James Van Fleet's Eighth Army, having risen in rank to brigadier general.
Shashindra Pal Tyagi	Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi took over as the 20th Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force from 31 December 2004.
Clayton P. Kerr	In 1958 Kerr was appointed Commander of the 49th Armored Division as a Major General.
Michael Denny	After the War he became Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel and Director of Personal Services and then, from 1947, Flag Officer (Destroyers) for the Mediterranean Fleet.
George E. Leach	In 1931 he was appointed Chief of the National Guard Bureau and promoted to Major General.
Jinichi Kusaka	On 24 December 1942, all naval forces in New Guinea and Solomon Islands area were combined into the newly designated Southeast Area Fleet with Kusaka in command.
Robert Leahy Fair	On August 25, 1975, Lieutenant General Fair assumed command of V Corps at Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany from Lieutenant General William R. Desobry.
Klaus Reinhardt	In April 1998 he was promoted to General and appointed Commander NATO Joint Headquarters Centre (today Allied Land Component Command - Headquarters Heidelberg).
George Jones (RAAF officer)	thumb | upright | right | Jones shortly after he was appointed CAS, May 1942 Passed over as CAS, Bostock subsequently became Air Officer Commanding (AOC) RAAF Command, which placed him in charge of Australian air operations in the Pacific.
Henry H. Arnold	He was succeeded by Spaatz, who also became first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force when it became a separate service on September 18, 1947.
Charles Loewen	He was appointed General Officer Commanding - in-Chief of Anti-Aircraft Command on 27 May 1950, with a promotion to lieutenant-general from the same date.
Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall	He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, UK Land Forces on 15 May 1976 and was promoted to full general on 25 June 1976.
Amir Eshel	He succeeded Ido Nehoshtan as Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force on May 10 2012.
Archibald MacLean	In the latter part of 1942, MacLean served on the air staff at the Air Headquarters Bengal before finally retiring for the last time on 14 December 1942.
Thomas Blamey	When White retired as Chief of General Staff in 1923, Blamey was widely expected to succeed him, as he had as chief of staff of the Australian Corps in France, but there were objections from more senior officers, particularly Major General Victor Sellheim, at being passed over.
Thomas Francis Hickey (general)	In 1954 Hickey was appointed Deputy Commander of U. S. Forces Far East and promoted to Lieutenant General.
Asaf Humayun	In 2009, he proceeded on leave pending retirement from the navy and was aucceeded by Vice Admiral Shahid Iqbal (appointed as Chief of Staff).
Kiyokazu Abo	In April 1925, he was appointed commander in chief of the Kure Naval District.
Stan Arthur	Admiral Arthur assumed duties as the Vice Chief of Naval Operations on 6 July 1992.
Maurice E. Curts	After Richardson was unexpectedly removed from command in January 1941, Curts hoped to leave the fleet staff and return to sea.
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Joseph J. Went	On 6 June 1985, he became Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics and was promoted to lieutenant general on 1 August 1985.
Stephen Dalton	On 1 May 2007, Dalton was promoted to air marshal, and appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief Personnel at Air Command and Air Member for Personnel.
Laurence Hugh Frost	He was Chief of Staff to Commander First Fleet in 1952.
St. Clair Streett	When the Continental Air Forces became Strategic Air Command (SAC) in March 1946, he retained his nominal position as deputy commander, and actually commanded the new organization until October when Kenney's prior obligations to the United Nations came to an end and he could finally take the reins of the SAC as originally intended by General Carl Andrew Spaatz.