General Panos Manjian


Brigadier General Panos Manjian was born in 1952 in Anjar, Lebanon. He has attended Anjar's Haratch School, after which he has attended the Lebanese Military School and graduated in 1975.

In 1979, Manjian was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky (USA) where he specialized in tank warfare due to which he was promoted to Captain, Major, and Lieutenant Colonel respectively.

After attending a similar course in Lebanon, Lt. Col. Manjian was assigned to attend the Command and General Staff Officer Course in 1995 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (USA). On January 1996, Panos was promoted to the rank of Colonel.

Back in Lebanon in the late 1996, he was assigned as Chief of Staff of a mechanized infantry brigade and two years later, he was assigned as the assistant commander of a mechanized brigade.

On February 1, 2001, he was assigned as a Brigade Commander of the 10th armored brigade and on July 1 he was promoted to the rank of a Brigadier General, known in the United States as a One-Star General.

To this day Panos Manjian is the only Armenian in the Diaspora to receive the coveted rank of General.

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