Michael Hagee

Michael William Hagee (born December 1, 1944) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2006, succeeding General James L. Jones on January 13, 2003.

He stepped down as Commandant two months before the end of his four-year term, and was succeeded by General James T. Conway on November 13, 2006.

[5] He graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering[6] and was a classmate of Oliver North, Charles Bolden, Jim Webb, and Michael Mullen.

His father, Robert L. Hagee, served as a United States Navy pilot in World War II and, in the summer of 2009, was awarded a plaque at the Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site, now known as the National Museum of the Pacific War (formerly Nimitz Museum) in Fredericksburg, Texas.

He and his wife Silke, daughter of the German Air Force brigadier general Werner Boie,[7] have two children.