{"id":60883,"date":"2021-03-12T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/03\/12\/black-marine-colonel-passed-over-3-times-receives-1-star-nomination\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:33:29","slug":"black-marine-colonel-passed-over-3-times-receives-1-star-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/2021\/03\/12\/black-marine-colonel-passed-over-3-times-receives-1-star-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Marine colonel passed over 3 times receives 1-star nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Passed over for promotion three times, Marine Col. Anthony Henderson may soon see his first star.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 28-year veteran, with years of experience leading infantry units, is currently the director of concepts and plans at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. He recently was featured in a story by The New York Times about absence of Black generals in the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps has never had a Black four-star general, the Times<\/a> reported in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of the story Henderson had been denied the promotion to brigadier general three times, despite the resume and reviews normally needed for advancement in the Corps, the outlet wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTony Henderson has done everything you could do in the Marines except get a hand salute from Jesus Christ himself,\u201d Milton D. Whitfield Sr., a former Marine gunnery sergeant who served for 21 years, told the Times in August 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t