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    The Rear-Admiral, Reserve Aircraft also known as Rear-Admiral, (E) Reserve Aircraft was a senior Royal Navy appointment responsible for all administering...
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    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...
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    Henderson as Rear-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers. He was succeeded by Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander R. M. Ramsay later Vice-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers. The...
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    1944–1945 Rear-Admiral Charles Harris 1945–1947 Rear-Admiral Leslie Ashmore 1947–1948 Rear-Admiral Reginald Servaes 1948–1951 Vice-Admiral Sir Robin Bridge...
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    commanded by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen. Thirteen US Navy support ships (besides the flagship USS Mount Olympus and the aircraft carrier USS Philippine...
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    War) Rear-Admiral Commanding Dover Patrol (1914-1915) Rear-Admiral Commanding, Nore Reserve (1919-1922) Rear-Admiral Commanding Portsmouth Reserve (1919-1921)...
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    Officer, Ground Training and Rear-Admiral, Reserve Aircraft (an Equipment Branch post) in January 1949. The Reserve Aircraft post was disestablished in...
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    command of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga in 1935 after completing a course in naval aviation, and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 1938. At...
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    Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces and Rear Admiral Surface Ships was also given the role of Rear-Admiral Surface Ships, the 'tribal chief' of surface...
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  • by Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, a future Fleet Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. Other important bureau chiefs included Rear Admiral...
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    Squadron, Rear-Admiral, Destroyers, Rear-Admiral, Submarines (2nd Submarine Flotilla, Dundee, 6th Submarine Flotilla, Blyth, Northumberland), Vice-Admiral, Aircraft...
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    Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) was the admiral responsible for the operations of the ships, submarines and aircraft of the British Royal Navy from 1971 until...
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    John F. Kirby (born June 3, 1963) is a retired United States Navy rear admiral serving as White House National Security Communications Advisor since 2022...
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    of FAA ratings. Rear-Admiral Dennis Cambell (1907–2000): inventor of the angled flight deck for aircraft carriers in 1951. Rear-Admiral Nick Goodhart (1919–2011):...
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  • officers: rear admiral (lower half) (one star), rear admiral (two stars), vice admiral (three stars), and admiral (four stars). Fleet admiral was a five-star...
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  • Pete Pettigrew (category United States Navy admirals)
    Pettigrew (3 February 1942 - 23 June 2024) was a retired United States Navy rear admiral. He graduated from Stanford University in 1964 with a degree in biological...
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    battleship Yamashiro from 1934 to 1935. He was promoted to Rear Admiral on 1 November 1935. As a Rear Admiral, Nagumo commanded the 8th Cruiser Division to support...
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    LeBreton (Flagship: USS New York) Aircraft, Atlantic Fleet (made up of one Carrier Division) - Commander: Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook (Flagship: USS Yorktown)...
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    Ernest J. King (redirect from Admiral King)
    Commander, Aircraft, Battle Force, a vice admiral who commanded the Navy's aircraft carriers, and Commander, Aircraft, Base Force, a rear admiral who commanded...
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  • The previous positions since 1913 were: Rear Admiral Commanding HM Australian Fleet (1913–1926), Rear Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron (1926–1949)...
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  • officer (French: officier général, "general officer") is an admiral, vice admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, the naval equivalent of a general officer...
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    Frank Jack Fletcher (category United States Navy admirals)
    Vice Admiral William Halsey normally commanded this task force, but had become ill and was replaced by Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. When aircraft from...
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    Admiral DeWolfe Miller III (January 11, 2018 – October 2, 2020) Vice Admiral Kenneth R. Whitesell (October 2, 2020 – September 7, 2023) Rear Admiral George...
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    John S. McCain Sr. (category United States Navy admirals)
    pioneer of aircraft carrier operations. He and his son, John S. McCain Jr., were the first father-and-son pair to achieve four-star admiral rank in the...
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    Alfred M. Pride (category United States Navy admirals)
    1988) was a United States Navy admiral and pioneer naval aviator, who distinguished himself during World War II as an aircraft carrier commander. He served...
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    William H. Brockman Jr. (category United States Navy rear admirals)
    Rear Admiral William Herman Brockman Jr. (November 18, 1904 – February 1, 1979) served in the United States Navy during World War II. Brockman was born...
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    November 1953 Rear-Admiral Peter Skelton: November 1953 – September 1956 Rear-Admiral Peter D.H.R. Pelly: September 1956 – November 1957 Rear-Admiral Walter...
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    Engineering under Rear Admiral John K. Robison. While in that capacity he assumed additional duty as a member of the board on doctrine of aircraft in connection...
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    groups formed for specific operations. Previously the admiral also held the appointment of Rear Admiral Surface Ships, but this has now been dropped. The...
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  • the level of rear admirals, the U.S. Congress at the time specified that the junior rear admirals which were referred to as rear admirals in the "lower...
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