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Vice admiral: Rear admiral: Rear admiral (lower half) Captain: Commander: Lieutenant commander: Lieutenant: Lieutenant (junior grade) Ensign: Uniformed services pay grade Special grade O-10 O-9 O-8 O-7 O-6 O-5 O-4 O-3 O-2 O-1 Officer candidate/Cadet
O-10 O-9 O-8 O-7 O-6 O-5 O-4 O-3 O-2 O-1 NATO code OF-10 OF-9 OF-8 OF-7 OF-6 OF-5 OF-4 OF-3 OF-2 OF-1 Insignia Uniform insignia Title Fleet admiral: Admiral: Vice admiral: Rear admiral: Rear admiral (lower half) Captain: Commander: Lieutenant commander: Lieutenant: Lieutenant (junior grade) Ensign: Abbreviation FADM ADM VADM RADM RDML CAPT CDR ...
Rear admiral (abbreviated as RADM), also sometimes referred to informally as "rear admiral (upper half)", is a two-star flag officer, with the pay grade of O-8 in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps and the United States Maritime Service.
The shoulder stars, shoulder boards, and sleeve stripes of a U.S. Navy rear admiral (Line officer). This is a list of active duty rear admirals (two-star rear admiral, abbreviated RADM) serving in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, and the United ...
Rear Adm. Elizabeth A. Hight was not confirmed to be director of the Defense Information Systems Agency in 2008. Rear Admiral Elizabeth L. Train was once the leading candidate to be director of naval intelligence in 2015, [238] but her nomination was withdrawn the following year [238] due to controversy related to the Fat Leonard corruption ...
Coast Guard officers hold pay grades ranging from O-1 to O-10 and have the same rank structure as the Navy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Officers holding the rank of ensign (O-1) through lieutenant commander (O-4) are considered junior officers, commanders (O-5) and captains (O-6) are considered senior officers, and rear admirals (O-7) through admirals (O-10 ...
In 1983, the one-star U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard admiral rank was changed back to its original O-7 pay grade title of "rear admiral" with the discriminator in seniority and protocol purposes of "Rear Admiral (lower half)," and a rank title abbreviation of RDML versus the O-8 rank title abbreviation of RADM.
[1] - US DoD, The United States Military Rank Insignia All Warrant Officer grades are authorized, but not used by the Air Force [2] - Office of the Law Revision Counsel. "U.S. Code TITLE 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, section 207(a)-Grades, ranks, and titles of commissioned corps (2006)" (PDF).