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|serviceyears= 1881-1883 (U.S. Navy) 1883-1923 (U.S. Marine Corps) |rank= 24px Major General |commands=Commandant of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific 1st Marine Regiment |awards=Navy Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Honor |laterwork= |spouse=Lelia Montague Gordon (wife) |relations=Thomas P.M. Barnett (cousin) Basil Gordon (stepson) |signature=Signature of George Barnett.png }} George Barnett (December 9, 1859April 27, 1930) was the 12th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. He was a pioneer of amphibious warfare and the U.S. Marine Commandant during American involvement in World War I. ==Early life and education== Barnett was born on December 9, 1859 in Lancaster, Wisconsin, and grew up in Boscobel, Wisconsin. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1877, graduating in 1881 with the first academy class to provide officers to the Marine Corps. After spending two years at sea as a cadet-midshipman aboard the USS Essex, he was transferred to the Marine Corps and was appointed a second lieutenant on 1 July 1883. While serving as a second lieutenant he did duty at the various Marine Barracks in the eastern part of the United States and commanded the Marine contingent at Sitka, Alaska for three years. He was again at sea on the at the time he was promoted to first lieutenant in September 1890. After completing the second of several tours of sea duty he served one year at the Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., and was then attached to a U.S. Marine guard at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, where he remained until it closed. At that time he resumed his regular duties at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Barnett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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