H. R. 1177 
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 
An Act 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of five United 
States Army 5-Star Generals, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisen-
hower, Henry ‘‘Hap’’ Arnold, and Omar Bradley, alumni of the United States 
Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to coincide 
with the celebration of the 132nd Anniversary of the founding of the United 
States Army Command and General Staff College. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘5-Star Generals Commemorative 
Coin Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States Army Command and General Staff 
College, founded in 1881, has in its many evolutionary forms, 
served this country consistently and well for 127 years. 
(2) The Command and General Staff College has played 
a decisive role in the education and training of officers, particu-
larly in their field grade years of service, in times of war 
and peace, since its establishment. 
(3) The Command and General Staff College has had a 
salutatory effect on many fields of battle by providing its officer 
student bodies the necessary skills of battle management, 
leadership development, and the most modern and effective 
command and staff action procedures, all of which have been 
key to this Nations’ success in its many conflicts which, thereby, 
have preserved its freedoms and way of life. 
(4) The Command and General Staff College, the Nations’ 
oldest military staff college, does not have a commemorative 
coin cast in celebrating its long and honorable history, dis-
playing its heritage, and serving as a reminder to the holder 
of such coins the service to the Nation its graduates have 
provided in war and peace. 
(5) The United States Army Command and General Staff 
College is the Nation’s largest and oldest military staff college, 
continuing to educate officers from all United States branches 
of military services, select members of our civil government, 
and officers from many friendly and allied nations from around 
the globe. Located in the middle of the American heartland, 
will continue to serve as a beacon of light to the proposition 
of intellectual curiosity and professional military excellence 
in the development of its students, and serve as a link to
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American citizenry grateful for the sacrifices, some in the fullest 
measure of duty and devotion to the Nation, made by the 
graduates of its Command and Staff College. 
(6) The Command and General Staff College Foundation, 
Inc. (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Foundation’’) is dedicated 
to promoting excellence in the faculty and students of the 
United States Army Command and General Staff College. 
Seeking new ways to educate and remind our citizens regarding 
the capable and selfless service of our military officers, and 
to imbue in them a sense of pride in those who bear the 
burden of military leadership in our Nation’s wars and in 
times of peace. 
(7) The Foundation is a nongovernmental, member-based, 
and publicly supported nonprofit organization that is entirely 
dependent on funds from members, donations, and grants for 
its functions and supports exclusively the United States Army 
Command and General Staff College. 
(8) The Foundation uses funding to provide the Margin 
of Excellence to the programs and activities of the College 
in support of the educational needs of the Nation’s field grade 
officer corps, and the faculty and staff attendant thereto. 
(9) In 2006, the Secretary of the Army accepted the first 
Foundation gift to the College in support of the Command 
and General Staff College. 
(10) The Foundation is actively engaged in the initial stages 
of its first capital campaign to support the Command and 
General Staff College. 
(11) The five 5-Star Generals who attended or taught at 
the Command and General Staff College; include Douglas Mac-
Arthur, George C. Marshall, Henry ‘‘Hap’’ Arnold, Dwight D. 
Eisenhower, and Omar N. Bradley. 
(12) DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, GENERAL OF THE ARMY.— 
(A) General MacArthur was a distinguished soldier, 
scholar, and strategist who gave 61 years of service to 
his country. 
(B) He commanded the 42d Division in World War 
I, and later served as the Chief of the Army General 
Staff. Prior to retirement, he was the Military Advisor 
to the Commonwealth of the Philippines. 
(C) In 1941, he was recalled to active duty as Com-
manding General, United States Army Far East. 
(D) He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic 
defense of the Philippines. 
(E) After being ordered to depart the Philippines by 
the President, he inspired the world with his statement, 
‘‘I shall return.’’. 
(F) Forces under his command defeated those of the 
Empire of Japan. 
(G) After accepting the Japanese surrender, he directed 
the highly successful reconstruction of the Japanese nation, 
and served as the first commander of United Nations Forces 
during the Korean War. 
(H) General MacArthur, son of General Arthur Mac-
Arthur, spent time as a child at Ft. Leavenworth and 
later in his career, he taught as a Captain in the Field
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Engineering School, and served as the adjutant, quarter-
master, and commanding officer of the 3d Engineer Bat-
talion (later reflagged as the 2d Engineer Battalion). 
(13) GEORGE C. MARSHALL, GENERAL OF THE ARMY.— 
(A) General George C. Marshall entered the Army from 
the Virginia Military Institute in 1902. 
(B) During a long career of public service, he distin-
guished himself as a leader, tactician, strategist, states-
man, and, truly, as the ‘‘Organizer of Victory’’. 
(C) In World War I, he was regarded as one of the 
most talented staff officers in the United States Army. 
(D) After that war, and throughout the many long 
and challenging duties of the interwar years, he was 
appointed United States Army Chief of the General Staff 
in 1939. 
(E) During World War II, he achieved recognition as 
one of America’s greatest military leaders. 
(F) As chief strategist of that global war, he materially 
assisted in directing the Allied Powers to victory. 
(G) In 1947 he was appointed Secretary of State for 
the United States and his outstanding career as a states-
man proved equal to his brilliant military career. 
(H) He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his 
conception and implementation of the European Recovery 
Program, and, subsequently, he served as the Secretary 
of Defense for 1 year. 
(I) General Marshall’s service at Ft. Leavenworth 
included graduation from the United States Army School 
of the Line in 1907, the United States Army Staff College 
in 1908, followed by instructor duty at Ft. Leavenworth 
from in 1909 and 1910. 
(14) HENRY H. ARNOLD, GENERAL OF THE ARMY.— 
(A) General ‘‘Hap’’ Arnold is the only officer in the 
history of our country to earn the ranks of General of 
the Army and General of the Air Force. 
(B) General Arnold, a graduate of West Point in 1907, 
received his pilot training in 1911 from the Wright brothers 
in Dayton, Ohio. 
(C) He became one of our Nation’s strongest advocates 
for air power, and personally held numerous records and 
trophies for flying achievements, to include the first 
delivery of United States mail by air. 
(D) Accomplishments in and from the air in the World 
Wars, particularly in World War II, were heavily influenced 
by his genius. 
(E) As a result of General Arnold’s contributions, 
massed air power gave a third dimension to battles of 
World War II, swept the skies of the enemy, and denied 
him mobility on the ground. 
(F) One of General Arnold’s citations reads in part: 
‘‘From conception to execution, General Arnold’s leadership 
guided the mightiest air force in history’’. 
(G) General Arnold’s service at Ft. Leavenworth was 
as a student at the Command and General Staff College, 
1928–1929. 
(15) DWIGHT
D. EISENHOWER, GENERAL
OF
THE
ARMY.—