who was the highest ranking officer killed in vietnam
Harold J. Greene At the rank of major general, Greene was the highest-ranking American service member killed by hostile action since Lieutenant General Timothy J. Maude was killed in the September 11 attacks, and the highest-ranking service member killed on foreign soil during a war since Rear Admiral Rembrandt Cecil Robinson was killed during the Vietnam War in May 1972.[12][13] To date, Greene is also the highest ranking American officer to be killed in combat in the ongoing Global War on Terrorism.[14]