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officers of major shore installations (e.g., naval air station, naval station, naval base, naval support activity, etc.). In the other U.S. armed services, the level and scope of responsibility of a USN Captain in a commodore billet is equivalent to that of the
Commanding Officer of a Marine Regiment, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) or Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in the U.S. Marine Corps, a wing commander in the U.S. Air Force (even when the USN command is designated as a "Group"), a delta commander in the U.S. Space Force, or a brigade commander or O-6 level post commander/installation commander in the U.S. Army.
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rear admiral or had retired from the Navy by 1950. According to the 1949 edition of the
Official Register of Commissioned Officers of the United States Navy, updated to January 1, 1949, the last two commodores on active duty were Tully Shelley (b. 1892) and Antoine O. Rabideau (b. 1884). Shelley retired in July 1949 and was promoted on retirement to rear admiral retroactive to April 3, 1945. Rabideau apparently died July 19, 1970, and his headstone shows him to have held the rank of rear admiral. However, as the
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In contrast to the U.S. Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Navy does not use USAF's same wing/group/squadron structure where "groups" are subordinate to "wings." Within the USN component of Naval
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The rank of commodore continued in the Navy until March 3, 1899, when "An Act To reorganize and increase the efficiency and the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps" redefined the list of officers on the active list and did not include the rank of commodore, effectively disestablishing the rank for
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In the U.S. Navy, commodore billets are considered to be O-6 "major command" assignments for
Captains, on par with the commanding officers of major combatant vessels (e.g., aircraft carrier, battleship, guided missile cruiser, amphibious assault ship), commanders of carrier air wings, and commanding
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After World War II, and with the rapid drawdown in size of both the Navy and the Coast Guard, very few of the wartime commodores were ever promoted to rear admiral. All promotions to commodore ceased in 1947, and nearly all of the commodores who had held the one-star rank had either been promoted to
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Commodores from more than 100 surrounding yacht clubs, flag officers of the US Navy and Coast Guard attend a ceremony at the beginning of the year. The ceremony includes a bagpipe entrance, a presentation of the country flag by commissioned officers of the country's
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evolved, the Navy began to rebound from its immediate post-World War II reductions. This expanding Navy saw growth in several mission areas, and the reintroduction and designation of senior captains in command of units comprising multiple ships (e.g., "flotillas"), multiple aviation squadrons or
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was concerned that the appointment of more flag officers would create a glut of admirals whenever peacetime was achieved. However, some Navy and Coast Guard captains, although not yet selected for rear admiral, were holding commands of significantly higher responsibility than they had earlier and
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Later in 1983, the one-star U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard admiral rank was changed back to its original O-7 pay grade title of "rear admiral" with the discriminator in seniority and protocol purposes of "Rear admiral (lower half)," and a rank title abbreviation of RDML versus the O-8 rank title
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of O-7, replacing "rear admiral (lower half)", which were Navy and Coast Guard flag officers who were paid at the one-star rank of an O-7 and carried the relative seniority of a one-star officer, but who, due to the elimination of the rank of commodore at the end of World War II, wore the same
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later held that the rank of commodore had been removed from the U.S. Navy, leaving it without an actual rank equivalent to brigadier general. This act disgruntled all the brigadier generals, who could now be outranked by officers who were their juniors in terms of service. This was a point of
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Captains assigned to a commodore billet employ the term "commander" in their organizational command title, this in keeping with the naval tradition of officers commanding a single ship, unit or installation being referred to as a "commanding officer" or "CO", while those captains and
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As a result, the one-star officer rank for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard was re-established in April 1943 with the title of "commodore". In actual practice, some officers on admiral's staffs were also promoted to the rank of commodore. By the end of the
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for many years, especially after 1916, when the U.S. Army made its brigadier generals equivalent to the rear admirals in the lower half of seniority. This made the rear admirals in the upper half of seniority, the only ones to be equal to that of a
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in August 1945, there were over 100 commodores in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. With respect to the U.S. Coast Guard, it should be understood that during World War II, the much-expanded Coast Guard was transferred from the
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variants of "commodore" are used as position titles for high level leadership positions (e.g. National
Commodore, Deputy National Commodore, District Commodore etc.). While Coast Guard Auxiliarists do not hold military ranks
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was originally unwilling to authorize more than four officer ranks in the navy (captain, master commandant, lieutenant, and midshipman) until 1862, considerable importance was attached to the title of commodore. Captain
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Auxiliary also occasionally bestows the title of "Honorary Commodore" as a mark of high esteem. Recipients of this honor include actor and Coast Guard veteran
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commanding multiple ships, multiple aviation squadrons, multiple air wings, task forces, fleets, etc., being known as a "commander" (but not to be confused with the USN / USCG
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officers commanding special warfare groups, etc.). These O-6 commanded units will typically report to a higher command echelon "group" led by a USN Flag
Officer.
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lower half (one star). There also several Deputy
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276:19th-century commodore insignia
186:was an early title and later a
92:NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
1875:Pay grade / branch of service
1630:"International Bridge of IYFR"
1273:
1260:
1230:
1201:
1164:
1146:
1107:
1053:
940:
877:United States Maritime Service
785:Naval Support Activity Bahrain
713:Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay
1:
2735:United States Navy commodores
1041:
594:Commandant of the Coast Guard
466:World War II and the Cold War
267:
1046:
777:Patrol Forces Southwest Asia
632:
7:
2690:Grade is authorized by the
1104:, pp. 261, 266–267, 289–290
999:
996:but less commonly awarded.
663:explosive ordnance disposal
627:
48:–era USN commodore insignia
10:
2751:
2667:
1781:
1710:Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
1332:ancestors.familysearch.org
1268:William C. Gibson vs. U.S.
822:U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
816:U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
614:rear admirals (lower half)
525:Department of the Treasury
262:
18:
1869:
1823:
1328:"Antoine Oliver Rabideau"
1026:Rear admiral (lower half)
592:and USCG officers to the
590:Chief of Naval Operations
496:Chief of Naval Operations
455:inter-service controversy
326:wrote in his 1850 novel,
196:United States Coast Guard
172:Rear admiral (lower half)
167:
157:
147:
139:
131:
123:
110:
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82:United States Coast Guard
69:
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21:Rear admiral (lower half)
966:Gulf Coast State College
692:commanding destroyer or
690:surface warfare officers
65:United States of America
1666:Royal Thames Yacht Club
990:Rhode Island Commodores
956:Southeastern Conference
931:Transpacific Yacht Race
623:Present-day title usage
253:Vice National Commodore
200:Confederate States Navy
1745:Yachting Yearbook 2020
1721:Royal Natal Yacht Club
1699:Golden Gate Yacht Club
1655:Royal Malta Yacht Club
950:The athletic teams of
922:Los Angeles Yacht Club
744:While technically not
716:
649:in the U.S. Navy. In
608:abbreviation of RADM.
533:anti-submarine warfare
529:Department of the Navy
487:Department of the Navy
478:
402:
344:
277:
16:Former U.S. naval rank
1677:Royal Cork Yacht Club
1412:"Uniform Regulations"
952:Vanderbilt University
908:because they have an
871:U.S. Maritime Service
706:
682:naval flight officers
512:Franklin D. Roosevelt
494:of the U.S. Navy and
473:
400:
386:on January 17, 1862.
334:
275:
1858:commissioned officer
960:Cornelius Vanderbilt
694:littoral combat ship
670:Civil Engineer Corps
354:Rank of flag officer
1800:on 13 November 2014
1732:List of yacht clubs
1688:New York Yacht Club
1416:www.public.navy.mil
1180:Library of Congress
857:celebrity spokesman
1575:"Command Pennants"
1016:Commodore-in-Chief
882:maritime academies
865:Coast Guard Alaska
717:
537:amphibious warfare
520:War in the Pacific
479:
450:U.S. Supreme Court
438:brigadier generals
407:American Civil War
403:
393:American Civil War
376:Louis Goldsborough
278:
257:National Commodore
249:District Commodore
238:aviation squadrons
192:United States Navy
77:United States Navy
2725:One-star officers
2712:
2711:
2706:
2705:
2701:
2700:
2674:'s GAS insignia:
1862:officer candidate
1788:Oliver, Raymond.
1021:Commodore admiral
775:units comprising
674:unrestricted line
655:carrier air wings
583:commodore admiral
570:U.S. Marine Corps
541:search and rescue
372:William W. McKean
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176:Brigadier general
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760:U.S. Coast Guard
602:U.S. Coast Guard
413:Disestablishment
297:Continental Navy
282:Continental Navy
168:Equivalent ranks
148:Next higher rank
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566:U.S. Air Force
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508:Ernest J. King
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