Jackson D. Arnold


Admiral Jackson Dominick Arnold was a fourstar admiral in the United States Navy who served as Chief of Naval Material from 1970 to 1971.

Jack Arnold was born in Gainesville, Florida, the first of five children of U.S. Army Major Albert C. AC Arnold and the former Irene Dominick. A farranging adventurer, AC Arnold had fought in the Boer War on the side of the Boers joined the Seventh Cavalry as a trooper been a riverboat gambler fought beside Brigadier General John J. Pershing on the Mexico Punitive Expedition been awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for actions with the 1326 Infantry at ChteauThierry during World War I gone to law school and been assigned to several positions in the peacetime Army before rejoining the Seventh at Fort Lewis, Washington, where he died in 1932.

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