Born in
Savannah, Georgia, to William Green Sr. and Mary Green, Green grew up in
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. He has a brother, Calvin, who is a retired colonel; and three sisters, Rosalind, Samantha, and Brenda. A member of the
National Baptist Convention, Green left active duty in 1986 to become an ordained minister. He originally served as the pastor of a small congregation in
Garden City, Georgia. In 1989 he received a BS in Criminal Justice from
Savannah State University and in 1992 he received a Master of Divinity degree from
Emory University. He became an army chaplain in 1994. From October 2016 to July 2019, Green was the command chaplain at
Fort Shafter for the
United States Army Pacific. Green was named deputy chief of chaplains and promoted to
brigadier general in August 2019. In December 2023, he was promoted to
major general. He was formally promoted in a ceremony in March 2024. Green was one of the three senior Army officers fired by Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth on 2 April 2026, along with
Chief of Staff of the United States Army General
Randy George and General
David M. Hodne, commander of the Army’s
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