Question: How long was the career of the Marine Corps major general who grew up in the Butler house?
Context: Bruno Arthur Hochmuth (May 10, 1911 – November 14, 1967) was a United States Marine Corps major general who was killed in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.  He was the first and only Marine Corps division commander to be killed in any war.  He was also the first American general officer to be killed in Vietnam, although a U.S. Air Force major general had been killed on July 24, 1967 in a B-52 bomber collision over the South China Sea.  Hochmuth, four other Marines, and a South Vietnamese Army aide were killed when a UH-1E Huey helicopter they were riding in from VMO-3 exploded and crashed five miles northwest of Huế. William Pendleton Thompson Hill (22 February 1895–6 December 1965) was a United States Marine Corps major general who served as Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps from 1944 to 1955. Major General James Everett Livingston (born January 12, 1940) is a retired United States Marine Corps major general.  He was awarded the United States' highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for heroic actions in 1968 during the Vietnam War.  Livingston served on active duty in the Marine Corps over 33 years before retiring on September 1, 1995.  His last assignment was the Commanding General of Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans, Louisiana. Butler House is a historic home located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.  It was built about 1845, and is a 2 ⁄ -story brick dwelling in the Federal style.  It has a rear ell with porch.  The house has been renovated into apartments.  It was the home of Congressman Thomas S. Butler (1855–1928), father of U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (1881–1940).  Maj. Gen. Butler grew up in the house. War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.  Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare.  He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934. Ray L. Smith is a retired United States Marine Corps major general.  Smith is a highly decorated Marine who has commanded infantry units at all levels.  His awards received for service in combat during the Vietnam War include the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, the Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. MajGen Smith retired from the Marine Corps in 1999 after almost 34 years of service.  In 2003, after nearly four years of retirement, Smith went to Iraq with the 1st Marine Division; and penned an eyewitness account of the march from Kuwait to Baghdad — "The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division." Joseph D. Stewart, also known affectionately by the midshipmen of the United States Merchant Marine Academy as "Joey D," (born July 9, 1942) is a retired United States Marine Corps major general, who after his retirement from the Marine Corps, was appointed as Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) on August 1, 1998.  He retired from the U.S. Maritime Service with the rank of vice admiral on September 30, 2008. Leslie M. Palm (born October 14, 1944) is a retired United States Marine Corps major general who is currently the Publisher and CEO of the Marine Corps Association.  His last active duty position was the Director, Marine Corps Staff, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. (1996–1998).  Palm retired on September 1, 1998. The Business Plot (also known as The White House Coup) was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States.  Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  In 1934, Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims.  No one was prosecuted. Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.  During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I.  Butler is well known for having later become an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences, as well as exposing the Business Plot, an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government.
Answer: 34-year