| Date | Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff | Vice Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff | Chief of Staff, US Armies | Chief of Army Air Force Chief of Staff, US Air Force | Chief of Naval Operations | Commandant of the Marine Corps | Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-07-20 | ADM William D. Leahy (Navy) | GEN George C. Marshall | LG Henry H. Arnold | ADM Ernest J. King | 1942-07-20 | |||
| 1943-03-19 | GEN Henry H. Arnold | 1943-03-19 | ||||||
| 1944-12-15 | FA William D. Leahy (Navy) | 1944-12-15 | ||||||
| 1944-12-16 | GA George C. Marshall | 1944-12-16 | ||||||
| 1944-12-17 | FA Ernest J. King | 1944-12-17 | ||||||
| 1944-12-21 | GA Henry H. Arnold | 1944-12-21 | ||||||
| 1945-11-19 | GA Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1945-11-19 | ||||||
| 1945-12-15 | FA Chester W. Nimitz | 1945-12-15 | ||||||
| 1946-02-09 | GEN Carl Spaatz | 1946-02-09 | ||||||
| 1947-09-26 | GEN Carl Spaatz | 1947-09-26 | ||||||
| 1947-12-15 | ADM Louis E. Denfeld | 1947-12-15 | ||||||
| 1948-02-07 | GEN Omar N. Bradley | 1948-02-07 | ||||||
| 1948-04-30 | GEN Hoyt S. Vandenberg | 1948-04-30 | ||||||
| 1949-03-21 | GA Dwight D. Eisenhower (Army) | 1949-03-21 | ||||||
| 1949-08-16 | GEN Omar N. Bradley (Army) | GEN J. Lawton Collins | 1949-08-16 | |||||
| 1949-11-02 | ADM Forrest P. Sherman | 1949-11-02 | ||||||
| 1950-09-18 | GA Omar N. Bradley (Army) | 1950-09-18 | ||||||
| 1951-07-22 | 1951-07-22 | |||||||
| 1951-08-16 | ADM William M. Fechteler | 1951-08-16 | ||||||
| 1953-06-30 | GEN Nathan F. Twining | 1953-06-30 | ||||||
| 1953-08-15 | ADM Arthur W. Radford (Navy) | GEN Matthew B. Ridgway | 1953-08-15 | |||||
| 1953-08-17 | ADM Robert N. Carney | 1953-08-17 | ||||||
| 1955-06-30 | GEN Maxwell D. Taylor | 1955-06-30 | ||||||
| 1955-08-17 | ADM Arleigh A. Burke | 1955-08-17 | ||||||
| 1957-07-01 | GEN Thomas D. White | 1957-07-01 | ||||||
| 1957-08-15 | GEN Nathan F. Twining (AirForce) | 1957-08-15 | ||||||
| 1959-07-01 | GEN Lyman L. Lemnitzer | 1959-07-01 | ||||||
| 1960-10-01 | GEN Lyman L. Lemnitzer (Army) | GEN George H. Decker | 1960-10-01 | |||||
| 1961-06-30 | GEN Curtis E. LeMay | 1961-06-30 | ||||||
| 1961-08-01 | ADM George W. Anderson | 1961-08-01 | ||||||
| 1962-10-01 | GEN Maxwell D. Taylor (Army) | GEN Earle G. Wheeler | 1962-10-01 | |||||
| 1963-08-01 | ADM David L. McDonald | 1963-08-01 | ||||||
| 1964-07-03 | GEN Earle G. Wheeler (Army) | GEN Harold K. Johnson | 1964-07-03 | |||||
| 1965-02-01 | GEN John P. McConnell | 1965-02-01 | ||||||
| 1967-08-01 | ADM Thomas H. Moorer | 1967-08-01 | ||||||
| 1968-07-03 | GEN William C. Westmoreland | 1968-07-03 | ||||||
| 1969-08-01 | GEN John D. Ryan | 1969-08-01 | ||||||
| 1970-07-01 | ADM Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. | 1970-07-01 | ||||||
| 1970-07-03 | ADM Thomas H. Moorer (Navy) | 1970-07-03 | ||||||
| 1972-07-01 | (GEN Bruce Palmer Jr.) | 1972-07-01 | ||||||
| 1972-10-12 | GEN Creighton W. Abrams Jr. | 1972-10-12 | ||||||
| 1973-08-01 | GEN George S. Brown | 1973-08-01 | ||||||
| 1974-07-01 | GEN George S. Brown (AirForce) | GEN David C. Jones | ADM James L. Holloway III | 1974-07-01 | ||||
| 1974-09-04 | 1974-09-04 | |||||||
| 1974-10-03 | GEN Frederick C. Weyand | 1974-10-03 | ||||||
| 1976-10-01 | GEN Bernard W. Rogers | 1976-10-01 | ||||||
| 1978-06-21 | GEN David C. Jones (AirForce) | 1978-06-21 | ||||||
| 1978-07-01 | GEN Lew Allen Jr. | ADM Thomas B. Hayward | 1978-07-01 | |||||
| 1979-06-22 | GEN Edward C. Meyer | 1979-06-22 | ||||||
| 1982-06-18 | GEN John W. Vessey Jr. (Army) | 1982-06-18 | ||||||
| 1982-07-01 | GEN Charles A. Gabriel | ADM James D. Watkins | 1982-07-01 | |||||
| 1983-06-23 | GEN John A. Wickham Jr. | 1983-06-23 | ||||||
| 1985-10-01 | ADM William J. Crowe Jr. (Navy) | 1985-10-01 | ||||||
| 1986-07-01 | GEN Larry D. Welch | ADM Carlisle A. H. Trost | 1986-07-01 | |||||
| 1987-02-06 | GEN Robert T. Herres (AF) | 1987-02-06 | ||||||
| 1987-06-23 | GEN Carl E. Vuono | 1987-06-23 | ||||||
| 1987-07-01 | GEN Alfred M. Gray, Jr. | 1987-07-01 | ||||||
| 1989-10-01 | GEN Colin L. Powell (Army) | 1989-10-01 | ||||||
| 1990-03-01 | ADM David E. Jeremiah (N) | 1990-03-01 | ||||||
| 1990-06-29 | ADM Frank B. Kelso II | 1990-06-29 | ||||||
| 1990-07-01 | GEN Michael J. Dugan | 1990-07-01 | ||||||
| 1990-09-18 | (GEN John M. Loh) | 1990-09-18 | ||||||
| 1990-10-30 | GEN Merrill A. McPeak | 1990-10-30 | ||||||
| 1991-06-21 | GEN Gordon R. Sullivan | 1991-06-21 | ||||||
| 1991-07-01 | GEN Carl E. Mundy, Jr. | 1991-07-01 | ||||||
| 1993-10-01 | (ADM David E. Jeremiah) (Navy) | 1993-10-01 | ||||||
| 1993-10-25 | GEN John M. Shalikashvili (Army) | 1993-10-25 | ||||||
| 1994-03-01 | ADM William "Bill" Owens (N) | 1994-03-01 | ||||||
| 1994-04-23 | ADM Jeremy M. Boorda | 1994-04-23 | ||||||
| 1994-10-26 | GEN Ronald R. Fogleman | 1994-10-26 | ||||||
| 1995-06-20 | GEN Dennis J. Reimer | 1995-06-20 | ||||||
| 1995-07-01 | GEN Charles C. Krulak | 1995-07-01 | ||||||
| 1996-03-01 | GEN Joseph W. Ralston (AF) | 1996-03-01 | ||||||
| 1996-05-16 | ADM Jay L. Johnson | 1996-05-16 | ||||||
| 1997-09-01 | 1997-09-01 | |||||||
| 1997-10-01 | GEN Henry H. Shelton (Army) | 1997-10-01 | ||||||
| 1997-11-06 | GEN Michael E. Ryan | 1997-11-06 | ||||||
| 1999-06-21 | GEN Eric K. Shinseki | 1999-06-21 | ||||||
| 1999-07-01 | GEN James L. Jones | 1999-07-01 | ||||||
| 2000-02-29 | GEN Richard B. Myers (AF) | 2000-02-29 | ||||||
| 2000-07-21 | ADM Vern Clark | 2000-07-21 | ||||||
| 2001-09-06 | GEN John P. Jumper | 2001-09-06 | ||||||
| 2001-10-01 | GEN Richard B. Myers (AirForce) | GEN Peter Pace (M) | 2001-10-01 | |||||
| 2003-01-13 | GEN Michael W. Hagee | 2003-01-13 | ||||||
| 2003-08-01 | GEN Peter J. Schoomaker | 2003-08-01 | ||||||
| 2005-07-22 | ADM Michael Mullen | 2005-07-22 | ||||||
| 2005-08-12 | ADM Edmund P. Giambastiani (N) | 2005-08-12 | ||||||
| 2005-09-02 | GEN T. Michael Moseley | 2005-09-02 | ||||||
| 2005-10-01 | GEN Peter Pace (Marine) | CSM William J. Gainey | 2005-10-01 | |||||
| 2006-11-14 | GEN James T. Conway | 2006-11-14 | ||||||
| 2007-04-10 | GEN George W. Casey Jr. | 2007-04-10 | ||||||
| 2007-09-02 | GEN James Cartwright (M) | 2007-09-02 | ||||||
| 2007-09-29 | ADM Gary Roughead | 2007-09-29 | ||||||
| 2007-10-01 | ADM Michael Mullen (Navy) | 2007-10-01 | ||||||
| 2008-04-25 | 2008-04-25 | |||||||
| 2008-08-12 | GEN Norton A. Schwartz | 2008-08-12 | ||||||
| Present | ADM Michael Mullen (Navy) | GEN James Cartwright (M) | GEN George W. Casey Jr. | GEN Norton A. Schwartz | ADM Gary Roughead | GEN James T. Conway | (vacant) | Present |
| Date | Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff | Vice Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff | Chief of Staff, US Armies | Chief of Army Air Force Chief of Staff, US Air Force | Chief of Naval Operations | Commandant of the Marine Corps | Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman | Date |