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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.
Comparisons are made between the different systems used by nations to categorize the hierarchy of an armed force compared to another. Several of these lists mention NATO rank reference codes. These are used for easy comparison among NATO countries. Links to comparison charts can be found below.
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 ...
In the Royal Canadian Navy, the rank of rear-admiral (RAdm) (contre-amiral or CAm in French) is the Navy rank equivalent to major-general of the Army and Air Force. A rear-admiral is a flag officer, the naval equivalent of a general officer. A rear-admiral is senior to a commodore and brigadier-general, and junior to a vice-admiral and ...
The main feature of the LANSA environment is the 'RDML / RDMLX' language–which is classified as a 4GL (4th generation language). [1] RDML closely follows the syntax of IBM CL or Control Language. CL is the "scripting language" equivalent of the OS/400 operating system. In recent years RDML has been extended to become RDMLX. This new version ...
The Program Executive Officer for PEO (IWS) is Rear Admiral Elizabeth Okano, USN, a post which she assumed in June 2020. [ 5 ] PEO (IWS) comprises five integrated combat systems major program offices, and seven product major program offices: [ 6 ]
RDML Anne M. Swap: 2015 [7]-2019 [8] RDML Terry J. Moulton [9] 2012-2015 [7] RDML Eleanor V. Valentin [10] 2009-2012 RADM Michael Mittelman [10] 2006-2009 CAPT Brian G. Brannman: 2004-2006 RADM J. Philip Van Landingham: 1999-2004 RADM H. Edward Phillips: 1995-1999 RADM S. Todd Fisher: 1993-1995 RADM Charles Loar: 1991-1993 RADM Donald Shuler ...
Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral (lower half), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral (upper half), i.e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent ...