most senior flag officer rank is the rank of admiral in the navy.
most senior flag officer rank is the rank of admiral in the navy.
what is the rank of admiral in the navy?
most senior flag officer rank
as further vacancies occurred, the british flag officer would be posted to the same rank in higher squadrons. for instance, a rear admiral of the blue squadron would be promoted to become rear admiral of the white, and then rear admiral of the red squadron. when reaching the highest position of the rank (rear admiral of the red), the flag officer would next be promoted to the rank of vice admiral, and begin again at the lowest coloured squadron (vice admiral of the blue). the process would continue again, until the vice admiral of the red was promoted to admiral of the blue. the highest possible rank was admiral of the red squadron, which until 1805 was synonymous with admiral of the fleet (originally this rank wore the same insignia as a regular admiral – a special insignia was first created in 1843).
royal navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries
commodore admiral (como) was a short-lived military rank of the united states navy and united states coast guard that existed for less than 11 months during the year 1982. the rank of commodore admiral was established as the navy's one-star admiral rank after over forty years during which all promoted navy and coast guard captains were advanced directly to the two-star position of rear admiral, but were still paid as one-star officers in the pay grade of o-7 while in a "rear admiral, lower half" category. this was a result of the navy personnel act of 3 march 1899 that eliminated the "rank" of commodore in the us navy. the same protocol was adopted by the us coast guard when it was established as a military service in its current form and title in the early 1900s. in the early 1940s, commodore was briefly reinstituted as a one-star wartime rank in the us navy and us coast guard, but most promoted captains were still advanced to the two-star insignia rank of rear admiral, lower half. with nearly all of the one-star commodore incumbents promoted to rear admiral by the end of world war ii, the rank of commodore was again suspended.
commodore admiral