Rear admiral (United States)

Future ADM Michelle Howard when she was a U.S. Navy RDML on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) in 2009.

A rear admiral in the uniformed services of the United States is either of two different ranks of commissioned officers: one-star flag officers and two-star flag officers. By contrast, in most other countries, the term "rear admiral" refers only to an officer of two-star rank.


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