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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
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.
In the United States Navy, officers have various ranks.Equivalency between services is by pay grade.United States Navy commissioned officer ranks have two distinct sets of rank insignia: On dress uniform a series of stripes similar to Commonwealth naval ranks are worn; on service khaki, working uniforms (Navy Working Uniform [NWU], and coveralls), and special uniform situations (combat ...
Rear Admiral Terry McCreary presenting a rating insignia of a mass communication specialist first class (MC1). The pay grades E-4 (petty officer third class) through E-9 (master chief petty officer) fall within the rating structure. It is further broken down into four types of ratings and classifications:
The Career Compensation Act of 1949 defined officer pay grades ranging from O-1 to a maximum of O-8 for a major general or rear admiral, the highest permanent grade to which an officer could be promoted on the active list under the Officer Personnel Act. Three-, four-, and five-star officers also held the O-8 pay grade, plus annual personal ...
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.
[8] - CBO (February 2002), The Warrant Officer Ranks: Adding Flexibility to Military Personnel Management, p. 19, Warrant Officer W-1 grade is authorized, but not used by the Navy [9] - USPHS CC (28 Oct 2008), Stars and Bars, Uniform Accessories at Commissioned Corps , The Commissioned Corps is an elite all-officer organization
Commissioned officer grade structure of the United States Coast Guard; US DoD Pay Grade O-10 O-9 O-8 O-7 O-6 O-5 O-4 O-3 O-2 O-1 NATO Code OF-9 OF-8 OF-7 OF-6 OF-5 OF-4 OF-3 OF-2 OF-1 Insignia: Title: Admiral: Vice admiral: Rear admiral (Upper Half) Rear admiral (Lower Half) Captain: Commander: Lieutenant commander: Lieutenant: Lieutenant ...