Editing William Westmoreland (section)

==Dates of rank==
[[File:U.S. Military Academy Coat of Arms.svg|35px]] [[United States Military Academy]] class of 1936

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|-
![[Second lieutenant (United States)|Second Lieutenant]]<br />([[Regular Army (United States)|Regular Army]])
![[First lieutenant (United States)|First Lieutenant]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Major (United States)|Major]]<br />([[Army of the United States]])
![[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]]<br />(Army of the United States)
![[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]]<br />(Army of the United States)
|-
!O-1
!O-2
!O-4
!O-5
!O-6
|-
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-01b.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-01a.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-03.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-04.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-05.svg|60px]]
|-
!12 June 1936
!12 June 1939
!1 February 1942<br />(temporary)
!25 September 1942<br />(temporary)
!28 July 1944<br />(temporary)
|}
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{| class="wikitable"  style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
|-
![[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Major (United States)|Major]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]]<br />(Army of the United States)
![[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Major general (United States)|Major General]]<br />(Army of the United States)
|-
!O-3
!O-4
!O-7
!O-5
!O-8
|-
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-02.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-03.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-06.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-04.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-07.svg|60px]]
|-
!12 June 1946
!15 July 1948
!7 November 1952<br />(temporary)
!7 July 1953
!December 1956<br />(temporary)
|}
<br />
{| class="wikitable"  style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
|-
![[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Major general (United States)|Major General]]<br />(Regular Army)
![[Lieutenant general (United States)|Lieutenant General]]<br />(Army of the United States)
![[General (United States)|General]]<br />(Army of the United States)
|-
!O-6
!O-7
!O-8
!O-9
!O-10
|-
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-05.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-06.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-07.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-08.svg|60px]]
|  style="text-align:center; width:16%;"| [[File:Army-USA-OF-09.svg|60px]]
|-
!June 1961
!14 July 1962
!20 May 1963
!31 July 1963<br />(temporary)
!1 August 1964<br />(temporary)
|}

[[Retired military|Retired]] from active service in July 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westmoreland-worldwide.org.uk/gen-w.html|title=Biography General William Childs Westmoreland|first=Dr Maureen L. [Westmoreland]|last=Ille|website=westmoreland-worldwide.org.uk|access-date=2011-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328131611/http://www.westmoreland-worldwide.org.uk/gen-w.html|archive-date=2012-03-28|url-status=dead}}</ref>