It is often regarded as a one-star rank with a NATO code of OF-6, but is not always regarded as a flag rank.

In many navies, the rank of commodore was merely viewed as a senior captain position, whereas other naval services bestowed upon the rank of commodore the prestige of flag officer status ; commodore is the highest rank in the Irish Naval Service, for example, and is held by only one person.

To correct this inequity, the rank of commodore as a single star flag officer was reinstated by both services in the early 1980s.

However, this was considered an awkward title and the one-star flag rank was renamed a few months later to its current title of rear admiral ( lower half ), abbreviated by the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard as RDML.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The high flag rank officers, junior officers and many high command officers from the Pakistan's Armed Forces were highly cautious about their appointment in East-Pakistan, and the assignment of governing East Pakistan and appointment of an officer was considered highly difficult for the Pakistan High Military Command.

# Officer: General or flag officer below the equivalent of a U. S. military chief of staff ; colonel or equivalent rank for service in assignments equivalent to those normally held by a general or flag officer in U. S. military service ; or military attachés.

; Jagul: Jagul is a flag officer rank which is approximately equivalent to a commodore or rear admiral.

Military-style uniforms, badges of rank, flag ceremonies, and brass bands were commonly accepted in the early years because they were a part of normal society, but since then have diminished or been abandoned in both Scouting and society.

After being selected for flag rank, Admiral Clark commanded Carl Vinson Battle Group / Cruiser Destroyer Group Three, Second Fleet, and United States Atlantic Fleet.

The Swedish military rank of fänrik ( and the corresponding cavalry rank of kornet ) was originally intended for the holder of the company flag.

Nelson's promotion to Rear-Admiral was not a reward for his services, but simply a happy coincidence: promotion to flag rank in the Navy of the time was based on seniority on the Captain's list and not on achievement.

The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags ( see flag terminology ).

Vice admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, which is equivalent to lieutenant general and air marshal.

: I ( rank and name ) pledge, for God and this flag,

Its flag consists of a U. S. Marine Corps corporal's stripes on a blue field ( presumably the flag was updated, since in the 1920s Marine Corps rank insignia did not include crossed rifles ).

A critical objective was to create a Joint Services career path for case officers to flag rank since the individual Services were inconsistent in their support of clandestine operations ; and, case officers were routinely sacrificed during reductions in force — or when the Intelligence Chiefs of the individual Services decided that espionage was immoral and military officers should not engage in " sinful activities.

The Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorganization Act was crafted partly to force military officers to serve in a Joint Services assignment in order to qualify for flag rank — ensuring the future of case officers from each Service.

* Benjamin Thurman Hacker ( 1935 – 2003 ), U. S. Navy Officer, first Naval Flight Officer to achieve flag rank

Commands go only from an officer to the man of nearest lower rank.

All orders originate with the officer of highest rank and terminate with action of the men in the ranks.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

* Air marshal, a senior air officer rank used in Commonwealth countries

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

Sir Thomas Blamey is the only Australian-born officer promoted to the rank.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

The rank of commanding officer of the crossbowmen corps was one of the highest positions in any army of this time.

" An aluminum identification tag, the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, stamped with the name, rank, company, regiment, or corps of the wearer, will be worn by each officer and enlisted man of the Army whenever the field kit is worn, the tag to be suspended from the neck, underneath the clothing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tab.

After serving for two years and attaining the rank of Sergeant Major for Artillery ( the highest rank a noncommissioned officer can achieve ), Poe sought to end his five-year enlistment early.

All of these armed forces were commanded by the unified command structure, the Eastern Military High Command, led by an officer of three-star rank equivalent.

IRB members held officer rank in the Volunteers throughout the country and would take their orders from the Military Committee, not from MacNeill.

Shortly after, Olympius, " an officer of rank in the court-guards " attempted to convince Honorius that Stilicho was in fact conspiring to depose Theodosius II, to replace him with Eucherius.

A phalanx tended to be 8 rows or more deep, each row with a leader, and a rear rank officer, the ouragos ( meaning: tail-leader ), who kept order in the rear.

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms.

* 1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.

In 1933, he was given honorary SS officer rank of SS-Standartenführer.

Lieutenant Colonel Manning, an officer in the Indian Corps was appointed Inspector General for all the troops and promoted to the rank of general.

But stupidity was no consolation when it had rank.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.

This rank and power was, however, often used most beneficially.

For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.

The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other.

The real reason that Joab killed Abner was that he became a threat to his rank of general.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

The face of the allegorical representation of France calling forth her people on this last was used as the belt buckle for the honorary rank of Marshal of France.

The taxon Branchiopoda was erected by Pierre André Latreille in 1817, initially at the rank of order.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

He was confirmed in the permanent rank of lieutenant-general in mid October.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

He was also promoted to the rank of Major.

It was designed for men of senatorial rank.

Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.

This punishment and the degradation to the rank of an aerarian were originally the same ; but when in the course of time a distinction was made between the rural or rustic tribes and the urban tribes, the motio e tribu transferred a person from the rustic tribes to the less respectable city tribes, and if the further degradation to the rank of an aerarian was combined with the motio e tribu, it was always expressly stated.