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Rear admiral (lower half) (abbreviated as RDML) is a one-star flag officer, with the pay grade of O-7 in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps. [1] [2] [3]
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-1 through O-4 are junior officers: ensign, lieutenant (junior grade), lieutenant, and lieutenant commander. O-5 and O-6 are senior officers: commander and captain . O-7 through O-10 are flag officers : rear admiral (lower half) ( one star ), rear admiral ( two stars ), vice admiral ( three stars ), and admiral ( four stars ).
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.
O-7, a pay grade in the US uniformed services: Brigadier General in the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force; Rear admiral (lower half) in the Navy, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
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 Admiral William L. Stubblefield (b. 1940) 1995–1999 [42] 13 Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields (b. 1949) 1999–2003 The first woman and first African-American in the combined history of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, ESSA Corps, and NOAA Corps to serve as director. [43] 14 Rear Admiral Samuel P. De Bow, Jr. 2003–2007 [44] 15 Rear Admiral