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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.
Unrestricted line (URL) and restricted line (RL) officers wear an embroidered gold star above their rank of the naval service dress uniform and, if they are in a rank below rear admiral (lower half), their shoulder board insignia, while staff corps officers and chief warrant officers wear unique designator devices. [11] [12]
English: Collar, shoulder, and sleeve rank insignia for a Rear admiral (upper half) in the United States Navy. Date: ... uniform width: 06:51, 9 January 2008: 289 × ...
Pages in category "United States Navy rear admirals (upper half)" The following 178 pages are in this category, out of 178 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rear Admiral (Upper Half) Barnett is one of just 15 African American admirals out of the 270 admirals currently in the U.S. Navy. Barnett was raised in Maury County before he moved to Kentucky.
Situations did occur where flag officers would "jump" to a higher rank in a different squadron, without serving their time in each rank of each squadron. Such was the case with William Bligh, who was promoted directly from rear admiral to vice-admiral of the blue without ever having served as a rear-admiral of the red or white squadron. On the ...
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 ...
United States Navy rear admirals (upper half) (178 P) Pages in category "United States Navy rear admirals" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total.