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          Major General Reginald A. Centracchio (Retired).

          Centracchio assumed duties as The Adjutant General of Rhode Island, and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard, on 1 August!

          Veterans Voice: Officer candidate school forged enduring bonds for this group

          In 1957, West Warwick Reggie was riding high.

          At 17, he was a junior in high school and a talented trumpet player.

          “I was ‘Mr.

          Music,’” Reggie reminisced recently. “I was dating a cheerleader.

          Reginald A. Centracchio was born in West Warwick.

        1. Reginald A. Centracchio was born in West Warwick.
        2. Retired Lieutenant Gen. Reginald A. Centracchio, Rhode Island adjutant general emeritus, is a gregarious, familiar figure in his hometown of Scituate.
        3. Centracchio assumed duties as The Adjutant General of Rhode Island, and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard, on 1 August
        4. He retired in as a brigadier general.
        5. Biography.

          6. the best-looking girl in the school. And then she dumped me!”

          “You’re not mature enough,” she told him. “Why don’t you join the Army and grow up?”

          So he did.

          He enlisted in September 1957.

          Reginald A.

          Centracchio: Retired three-star general

          In 2005, 48 years later, Reginald A. Centracchio retired as a three-star general, having served the previous 10 years as Rhode Island’s adjutant general. He was the first Guardsman to rise from private to adjutant general in Rhode Island’s history.

          That journey began in 1961, when Centracchio was one of 54 candidates to join the fifth-ever class of Rhode Island’s Officer Candidate School.

          Fifteen months later, only 10 graduated.

          On April 2, three members of that class