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Despite awarding Army engineer Edgar Jadwin the retired pay of a lieutenant general under almost identical circumstances, the Comptroller General of the United States denied Leys the retired pay of a vice admiral on the grounds that the grade had been abolished in 1890 and all subsequent vice admirals actually held the grade of rear admiral ...
Under this provision, Edgar Jadwin retired as a lieutenant general in 1929 and James F. Leys as a vice admiral in 1932, the first Army engineer and first Navy surgeon, respectively, to achieve three-star rank. [29]
A permanent vice admiral was an officer who was confirmed by the Senate to hold the permanent grade of vice admiral, which the officer retained regardless of assignment. . Appointments to this permanent grade on the active list were only authorized between 1866 and 1873, and all subsequent appointments were on the retired l
Vice Adm. John B. Totushek passes through the sideboys at the U.S. Navy Reserve change of command ceremony on 18 October 2003. The directorates of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations underwent significant restructuring between 2000 and 2009. Vice Adm. Bruce E. MacDonald is pinned with his new rank by his wife, Karen, on 4 August 2008.
Vice Adm. Michael E. Boyle salutes sideboys during the change of command ceremony for U.S. Third Fleet on 16 June 2022. The U.S. Code states that no more than 34 officers in the U.S. Navy may hold the rank of vice admiral on the active duty list, aside from those on joint duty assignments. [7]
For example, the nomination of Rear Admiral Elizabeth L. Train for promotion to vice admiral and assignment as director of naval intelligence and deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare was withdrawn in April 2016 [35] in favour of Vice Admiral Jan E. Tighe, then-commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and Tenth Fleet. [36]
Gwen Leys Davenport (October 3, 1909 – March 23, 2002) [1] was an American comic novelist. Gwen Leys was born on October 3, 1909 in Colón in the Panama Canal Zone , the daughter of Vice Admiral James Farquharson Leys, a surgeon with the United States Navy , and Gwen Wigley Leys.
The Admiral James & Sybil Stockdale Arena at South Kent School was named after Stockdale and his wife in April 2014. [ 40 ] In October 2014, Airbase Arizona of the Commemorative Air Force placed on display a restored Grumman AF-2S Guardian (BuNo 126731) flown by vice admiral Stockdale early in his navy career with his name on the canopy rail ...