Though he’ll regretably be remembered most for his turn in Rolling Stone, we should not forget Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s contributions to his country, the Army, and the conflict in Afghanistan.

At McChrystal’s Fort McNair retirement ceremony Friday, Robert Gates said of the general, “Over the past decade, arguably no single American has inflicted more fear, more loss of freedom and more loss of life on our country’s most vicious and violent enemies than Stan McChrystal.”