* Fred Thompson as Rear Adm. Joshua Painter

The trip was scheduled to include 18 speeches and innumerable informal talks, and accompanying him were Secretaries Work, Wallace, and Hoover, House Speaker Gillett and Rear Adm. Adam Hugh Rodman.

Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore launched a series of attacks on Fort Wagner on Morris Island and other fortifications at the mouth of the harbor, while Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren attempted to destroy Fort Sumter.

Behind him stand Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Adm. William Halsey and Rear Adm. Forrest Sherman.

Recognized by his captors as the leader in the Prisoners ' of War resistance to interrogation and in their refusal to participate in propaganda exploitation, Rear Adm. Stockdale was singled out for interrogation and attendant torture after he was detected in a covert communications attempt.

Sensing the start of another purge, and aware that his earlier efforts at self-disfiguration to dissuade his captors from exploiting him for propaganda purposes had resulted in cruel and agonizing punishment, Rear Adm. Stockdale resolved to make himself a symbol of resistance regardless of personal sacrifice.

Rear Adm. Stockdale's valiant leadership and extraordinary courage in a hostile environment sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U. S. Naval Service.

Sparks married a local U. S Virgin Island woman, Grace Joseph Sparks ; when Sparks ' superior, Rear Adm. Summer Ely Wetmore Kitelle, commissioned the design for the flag, P. W. Sparks asked his wife and her sister, Blanche Joseph ( later Sasso ), to sew the first flag.

As a reservist, Rear Adm. Oswald flew the RF-8 and the A-7 until 1988 when he transferred to the fledgling Naval Reserve space community.

Under fire, Rear Adm. Fletcher was eminent and conspicuous in the performance of his duties ; was senior officer present at Vera Cruz, and the landing and the operations of the landing force were carried out under his orders and directions.

* Rear Adm Chris Snow, Flag Officer Sea Training since February 2009, and commanded HMS Ocean from 2005-6

The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was an engagement of the American Civil War in which a Federal fleet commanded by Rear Adm. David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Adm. Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay.

The man who led the Union fleet at Mobile Bay was Rear Adm. David G. Farragut, no longer Flag Officer Farragut.

Mobile did come under combined army-navy attack, but only in March and April 1865, after Farragut had been replaced by Rear Adm. Henry K. Thatcher.

Commanded by Rear Adm. Alfred L. Montgomery, it consisted of the carriers, and.

Then, Commodore, Khan Hasham Bin Saddique of Pakistan Navy, left, hands a spyglass to French navy Rear Adm. Jean L. Kerignard during a change of command ceremony aboard PNS Tippu Sultan ( D 186 ) while in port at Mina Salman Pier, Bahrain, February 25, 2008.

In the earlier action, intercepting a Japanese Task Force intent upon storming our island positions and landing reinforcements at Guadalcanal, Rear Adm. Scott, with courageous skill and superb coordination of the units under his command, destroyed 8 hostile vessels and put the others to flight.

* Rear Adm. Robert A. Theobald ( 17 May 1942 – 4 January 1943 )

* Rear Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid ( 4 January – 11 October 1943 )

* Rear Adm. Roger Welles Jr. ( April 1917 – January 1919 )

* Rear Adm. Albert P. Niblack ( May 1919 – September 1920 )

* Rear Adm. Andrew T. Long ( September 1920 – June 1921 )

** Rear Admiral Philip D. Gallery ( 1907 – 1973 )

The Soviets requested a British naval presence off northern Russia and Rear Admiral Philip Vian visited Murmansk to assess the local situation.

Gallery and Philip D. Gallery, also rose to the rank of Rear Admiral.

The founders of the U. S. Naval Institute were: Rear Admiral John L. Worden ( former skipper of the USS Monitor ), Commodore Foxhall Parker, Lieutenant Charles Belknap, Commanders Edward Terry and S. Dana Greene, Chief Engineer C. H. Baker, Medical Director Philip Lansdale, Pay Inspector James Murray, Lieutenant Commanders P. E. Harrington, J. E. Craig, Casper F. Goodrich, P. H. Cooper, C. J.

On 1 May 1943, Commodore Hughes-Hallett succeeded Rear Admiral Philip Vian as the head of the Naval Branch at Supreme Allied Command.

Rear Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet KCB (; 9 September 1776 – 2 January 1841 ) was a distinguished officer in the British Royal Navy.

Elbrick's father-in-law was Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, who was the son of Rear Admiral Philip Carrigan Johnson, a commander of the USS Constitution, and the nephew of celebrated artist Eastman Johnson.

* Rear Adm Philip Marrack CB, commanded the Admiralty Reactor Test Establishment, Dounreay from 1967 – 70

In 1946, Truman appointed Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, USNR, as the first Director of Central Intelligence.

In 1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was appointed as the first Director of the CIA.

As guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2010, David Lynch selected Tati's Mon Oncle alongside Hour of the Wolf ( Dir Ingmar Bergman ), Lolita ( Dir Stanley Kubrick ), Rear Window ( Dir Alfred Hitchcock ) and Sunset Boulevard ( Dir Billy Wilder ) to be screened in his sidebar program, explaining that ...

Fleming based much of M's character on Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Navy, and Fleming's superior during World War II.

President Truman persuaded a reluctant Hillenkoetter, then a Rear Admiral, to be Director of Central Intelligence ( DCI ), and run the Central Intelligence Group ( September 1947 ).

Rear Admiral Eric Broderick served as the Acting Director upon Dr. Cline's departure, until the arrival of the succeeding Administrator, Pamela S. Hyde, J. D.

* 1979-1980 Marsha J. Evans ; President / CEO of American Red Cross ; former National Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the USA ; Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy ( ret.

Rear Admiral Souers was appointed as the first Director of Central Intelligence on January 23, 1946 by President Harry S. Truman.

* 1973 — Promoted to Rear Admiral and made Deputy Director, Strategic Plans, Policy, Nuclear Systems and NSC Affairs Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

A year later, Rear Admiral Hughes moved to the job of Director of Fleet Training.

* Rear Admiral Jamil Akhtar, SI ( M ) — Director General Naval Intelligence ( DG NI )

* Rear Admiral Syed Hasan Nasir Shah, SI ( M ) — Managing Director, Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works ( MD KSEW ), Karachi

* Rear Admiral Waseem Akram, SI ( M ), SBt — Director General Maritime Security Agency ( DG MSA ), Karachi

Turner was Director of War Plans in Washington, D. C., in 1940-41 and was promoted to Rear Admiral late in 1941.

In 1872, he was promoted to flag rank as a Rear Admiral, and was ordered to Berlin as Director of the Admiralty, where he remained until July 1879.

Rear Admiral Ghormley was Director of the War Plans Division and Assistant Chief of Naval Operations until August 1940, when he went to the United Kingdom as a Special Naval Observer.

, the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps is Rear Admiral ( upper half ) Elizabeth S. Niemyer, the 23rd Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.

McSwain served as Acting Director when Rear Admiral Charles W. Grim declined an additional term of service in September 2007 ; he was nominated by President George W. Bush, confirmed and appointed in May 2008.

The Deputy Director General of the EUMS is Rear Admiral Bruce Williams from the UK.

Director Richard Franklin was hired to direct Psycho II because he was a Hitchcock student and even visited him on the set of Topaz, and because a year earlier, Franklin made a film called Roadgames starring Jamie Lee Curtis which was influenced by Hitchcock's 1954 film Rear Window.

Detached from that duty and promoted to Rear Admiral, Wilkinson was assigned as Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence ( ONI ) on October 15.

Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming of the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division, who later wrote the James Bond novels, was the personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear Admiral John Godfrey.