Official Portrait: Retired Commandant of The Marine Corps, Gen Alfred M. Gray, camouflage utility uniform, ribbons worn. (Marine Corps) Gen. Al Gray, the 29th commandant of the Marine Corps, died ...

Gen. Al Gray, the 29th commandant of the Marine Corps, died Wednesday at his home in Alexandria, Va., after a brief stay in hospice care, the service announced.

Gen. Gray, as a two-star general overseeing 2nd Marine Division in North Carolina, ... He became known for wearing a distinctive sport coat fashioned out of the Marine Corps camouflage pattern.

Official portrait of the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Alfred M. Gray. (Marine Corps) Gray married Jan Goss in 1980, as a 52-year-old major general. Goss died in 2020.

Retired Brigadier General Kevin Stewart says Gray proved his dedication to the Marine Corps and those he served with. “He loved his Marines and Sailors and they loved him. So, when that tragedy ...

Gray was a Commanding General at the 2nd Marine Division and II Marine Expedition Force, both headquarted at Camp Lejeune. After that, Gray was the 29th Commandant from 1987 to 1991.

In a Marine Corps-wide message on March 27, Commandant Gen. Eric Smith recalled that Gray, who famously had his official portrait painted in his camouflage utility uniform, said that "every Marine ...

Retired Marine Corps Gen. Gen. Alfred Gray Jr., ... Gray was promoted to general and became commandant on July 1, 1987, and retired from the service on June 30, 1991.