rear admiral

Definition of rear admiral

: a commissioned officer in the navy or coast guard having either of two ranks:

a : one who ranks above a captain

— called also rear admiral (lower half)

b : one who ranks above a rear admiral (lower half) and below a vice admiral

— called also rear admiral (upper half)

Examples of rear admiral in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Kushner and his team had embedded at FEMA, along with a Navy rear admiral, John Polowczyk, to oversee the supply-chain crisis, but Ries managed only to speak with an aide to the admiral. — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, "How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?," 9 Apr. 2020 Last week the administration named Coast Guard rear admiral Peter Brown to a new White House post to oversee disaster relief efforts. — Mary Anastasia O’grady, WSJ, "Trump’s Pitch to Puerto Rican Voters," 9 Feb. 2020 Inducted with the College Football Hall of Fame's third class in the 1956, Whitmire reached the rank of rear admiral in the Navy. — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, "Alabama’s greatest 100 football players: 2019 season update," 9 Mar. 2020 In 2018, Trump national security adviser John Bolton fired rear admiral Timothy Ziemer, the White House official in charge of coordinating the response to a global epidemic, and disbanded his office. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, "The market doesn’t need a rate cut—it needs Trump to take coronavirus more seriously," 3 Mar. 2020 My father was a two-star rear admiral — the highest-ranking military officer that day and also a retired American Airlines captain. — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, "'The public has forgotten': 9/11 family members lament justice delayed at Guantanamo Bay," 1 Feb. 2020 Alameda’s Coast Guard Island, the artificial island in the Oakland estuary, is overseen by Byrd’s bosses, a rear admiral and vice admiral, and acts as the command center for operations from the Rocky Mountains to the Indian Ocean. — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, "In ever-changing Bay Area, Coast Guard captain has complex assignment," 4 Jan. 2020 Gallagher filed a complaint with the inspector general accusing a rear admiral of insubordination for defying Trump’s actions. — Washington Post, "Secretary of Navy says Trump’s tweet is not a formal order," 24 Nov. 2019 At halfime, Navy led, 6-0, having scored on a five-yard run by halfback Art Spring, later a rear admiral and chief of staff of the U.S. 7th Fleet. — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, "Baltimore was genesis of Navy-Notre Dame rivalry," 14 Nov. 2019

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“Rear admiral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rear%20admiral. Accessed 28 Nov. 2020.

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