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Vice Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vice Admiral is a naval rank of three star level, equivalent to Lieutenant General in seniority. A Vice Admiral is typically senior to a Rear Admiral and junior to an Admiral. In the Royal Navy the rank of Vice Admiral should be distinguished from the office of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom, which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired full Admiral. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice_Admiral   (417 words)

Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Admiral is a word from the Arabic term Amir-al-bahr (commander of the sea). As the word was used by people speaking Latin or Latin-based languages it gained the "d" and endured a series of different endings and spellings leading to the English spelling "admyrall" in the 14th century and to "admiral" by the 16th century. The word Admiral has today come to be almost exclusively associated with the highest naval rank in most of the world's navies, equivalent to the rank of (Full) General. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Admiral   (359 words)

Bio of Vice Admiral Thad Allen Vice Admiral Allen is a native of Tucson, AZ. Vice Admiral Allen is married to the former Pamela A. Hess of Champaign, IL. Vice Admiral Allen is the son of Clyde and Wilma Allen. www.rh.edu /news/news03/commencement03/vadmbio.html   (411 words)

Encyclopedia: Vice Admiral To hold the office, the Vice President must satisfy the same constitutional qualifications as the President; that is, the Vice President must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the United States for 14 years. There is a strong convention within the U.S. Senate that the Vice President not use his position as President of the Senate to influence the passage of legislation or act in a partisan manner, except in the case of breaking tie votes. John Adams, the first Vice President, described it as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Even 150 years later, 32nd Vice President John Nance Garner famously described the office as "not worth a pitcher of warm piss," (at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit"). www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vice-Admiral   (361 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Vice Adm. Allen was designated the Principal Federal Official in Sept. 2005 for hurricane Katrina response and recovery activities in Prior to his assignment as Chief of Staff, Vice Adm. Allen served as Commander, Coast Guard Atlantic Area, where he was the operational commander for all Coast Guard activities in an area of responsibility spanning five Coast Guard Districts, over 14 million square miles, involving 26,000 military and civilian employees, and 27,900 auxiliarists. Vice Adm. Allen is married to the former Pamela A. Hess of www.uscg.mil /vice_admiral_thad_w.htm   (384 words)

WIC Biography - Vice Admiral Patricia Ann Tracey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Vice Admiral A. Patricia Tracey is the senior ranking woman officer in the United States military service, and the first and only woman in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of Vice Admiral. Vice Admiral Tracey assumed her current position as the Chief of Naval Education and Training and the Director of Training on July 10, 1996. Vice Admiral Tracey became a Fellow with the Chief of Naval Operations' Strategic Studies Group at the Naval War College in 1992. www.wic.org /bio/ptracey.htm   (323 words)

Debating Our Destiny: Admiral James Stockdale You were the Reform Party candidate for vice president in 1992, and you participated in the vice presidential debate. ADMIRAL JAMES STOCKDALE: It was terribly frustrating because I remember I started with, "Who am I? Why am I here?" and I never got back to that because there was never an opportunity for me to explain my life to people. And yet you wanted, as a candidate for vice president of the United States, you wanted to be able to explain that to people as in terms of who you are, and who you were, and how you got there. www.pbs.org /newshour/debatingourdestiny/interviews/stockdale.html   (2165 words)

Vice Admiral  Jisaburo Ozawa Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War Two. Ozawa commanded the Japanese fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of the Philippine Sea and he fought at Leyte Gulf. In 1937, Ozawa was appointed Chief-of-Staff of the Combined Fleet and in 1940, he was promoted to Vice Admiral and president of the Japanese Naval Academy. www.historylearningsite.co.uk /vice_admiral__jisaburo_ozawa.htm   (380 words)

Vice Admiral J. E. Stika   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Vice Admiral Joseph Edward Stika was born on 21 September 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Vice Admiral Stika was commended by the Swedish government for "the good work and excellent seamanship displayed by the Commander, officers and crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Unalga" on the occasion of the accident which occurred to the Swedish training ship A.F. Chapman in the harbor of San Juan on 18 July 1934. Vice Admiral Stika was assigned to duty as Commander, Thirteenth Coast Guard District with headquarters at Seattle, Washington on 8 July 1946. www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/VADM_Stika_Oral_History.html   (10369 words)

Harry DeWolf Vice Adm. Harry DeWolf, a destroyer commander who was Canada's most highly decorated naval officer of World War II, died Dec. 18 in his home in Ottawa. Admiral DeWolf's destroyer, Haida, which survives as a floating museum and war memorial on the Toronto waterfront, sank or damaged more than a dozen German warships, bringing it renown as Canada's foremost ship of World War II. Admiral DeWolf commanded aircraft carriers after the war, served as Canada's senior military official in Washington from 1952 to 1956 and was chief of naval staff from 1956 to 1960. www.mishalov.com /DeWolf.html   (802 words)

NATO/IMS: Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks, KCB - DIMS Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks joined the Royal Navy in 1964 and after graduating from Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, served as a junior officer in frigates and destroyers of the Far East Fleet. During 1990 Vice Admiral Haddacks was sent to the Gulf Theatre in the rank of Commodore to be Senior Naval Officer Middle East and commander of UK maritime forces during Operation Desert Shield. Vice Admiral Haddacks assumed the appointment of Assistant Chief of Staff Policy and Requirements Division at SHAPE in June 1994 and subsequently was appointed United Kingdom Military Representative to the Military Committee on 24 February 1997. www.nato.int /ims/bios/haddacks-e.htm   (473 words)

Vice Admiral John Colin De Silva, PVSM, AVSM, Indian Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Vice Admiral John C DeSilva, joined the National Defence Academy in Jul 1960 and was later commissioned in the Indian Navy. Vice Admiral DeSilva was promoted to Flag rank in October 1992 and held the appointments of the Assistant Chief of Personnel (Human Resource Development), Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Information Warfare and Operations) till he was promoted to Vice Admiral in Jul 1997. Vice Admiral DeSilva was decorated with the Ati Vishist Seva Medal in 1993 and the Param Vishist Seva Medal in 2001 for distinguishing service of a most exceptional order. www.geocities.com /siafdu/brass30.html   (270 words)

Navy officer to head Integrated Defence Staff Vice Admiral Raman Puri would be the new chief of the Integrated Defence Staff, the unified command that controls India's nuclear weapons, its Tri-service Command in Andamans, major defence institutions and the Defence Intelligence Agency. Vice Admiral Puri, respected in naval circles for his interest in technical matters, would bring in his expertise to the Integrated Defence Staff headquartered in South Block. Vice Admiral Madanjit Singh, the chief of the Southern Naval Command based in Kochi, would take over as the next c-in-c of the Western Naval Command, which is the most critical command of the navy, controlling seas bordering Pakistan and the busy sealanes running from the Gulf region. www.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/20navy.htm   (388 words)

Eli Thomas Reich, Vice Admiral, United States Navy Admiral Reich received three awards of the Navy Cross, the highest military decoration for valor after the Medal of Honor, for "extraordinary heroism" as commander of the submarine Sealion in combat operations from March to December 1944. Admiral Reich, a 30-year resident of Washington and Arlington, was born in New York and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1935. Admiral Reich served on the staff of the submarine commander at Corregidor and Bataan in the Philippines, escaping aboard another submarine before the surrender of U.S. forces there in the spring of 1942. www.arlingtoncemetery.net /etreich.htm   (783 words)

James Stockdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy. He was the highest ranking naval officer held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Stockdale is also remembered as a Vice Presidential candidate in the 1992 election on Ross Perot's independent ticket. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Stockdale   (1789 words)

Admiral von Scheer Admiral Scheer entered the German navy as a cadet on 22 April 1879, and was promoted to Sea Cadet on 15 June 1880. It was reported that the Committee deposed all the commanders and admirals of the Fleet and told them that as long as they kept to their quarters they would not come to harm, but if they moved they would be dealt with. Admiral Scheer was able to inflict heavy losses on the Allied Powers shipping even though he had a limited number of German warships at his disposal. www.100megsfree2.com /jjscherr/scherr/vonscheer.htm   (1992 words)

Debating Our Destiny: The 1992 Vice Presidential Debate The vice president presides over the Senate, he casts a deciding vote in case of a tie, but his role really depends on the assignments that are given to him by the president. But even as vice president you never know exactly what your role is going to be from time to time, and let me just give you an example of where I was tested under fire and in a crisis. Discussions of the vice presidency tend sometimes to focus on the crisis during which a vice president is thrust into the Oval Office, and indeed, one-3rd of the vice presidents who have served have been moved into the White House. www.pbs.org /newshour/debatingourdestiny/92debates/vp1.html   (4027 words)

VICE ADMIRAL SCOTT A Vice Admiral Fry was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and entered the United States Naval Academy in 1967, after attending public schools in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Vice Admiral Fry was then assigned to his first shore tour at the Bureau of Naval Personnel where he served as Cruiser / Destroyer Atlantic Fleet Placement Officer and Assistant Surface Captain Detailer from March 1980 to March 1983. Vice Admiral Fry's military awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit (five awards), Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy Commendation Medal, and numerous campaign and service awards. www.dd979.com /vice_admiral_scott_a.htm   (447 words)

Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: Vice Admiral James Stockdale Vice Admiral James Stockdale, who has died at the age of 81 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was what his beloved Greek philosophers would have called a "great-souled man". A navy pilot and a philosopher whose favourite teacher was the Stoic Epictetus, Stockdale proved his physical courage under brutal torture in Hanoi, and his civil courage by running for vice president of the United States in 1992 as the running mate of Ross Perot. He never did, and the admiral found himself, at short notice and with no preparation whatever, debating with Al Gore and Dan Quayle on television in front of millions of viewers. www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1523835,00.html   (764 words)

Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, Ret.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Upon his retirement from the Navy in 1979, the Secretary of the Navy established the Vice Admiral James Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership which is presented annually to two commanding officers, one in the Atlantic Fleet and one in the Pacific. In 1993 he was inducted into the Carrier Aviation Hall of Fame, and in 1995 was enshrined in the U.S. Naval Aviation Hall of Honor at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. Vice Admiral Stockdale holds 26 combat decorations, including two Purple Hearts, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, three Distinguished Service Medals, four Silver Star Medals, and the Congressional Medal of Honor. ethics.acusd.edu /values/Stockdale/Sherman/Stockdale.html   (312 words)

John T. Hayward, Vice Admiral, United States Navy Vice Admiral John Hayward, a weapons expert who helped develop the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in the closing days of World War II, died on Sunday at his home in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Admiral Hayward served as president of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1966 until retiring from active duty in 1968. Admiral Hayward is survived by a sister, Marjorie Madey of Baton Rouge, LA; a son, John T. Hayward Jr. www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jhayward.htm   (978 words)

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: Vice Admiral Thad Allen Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen, the new head of the Hurricane Katrina relief operation, is seen by Washington as a man of action. The three-star admiral led the Atlantic forces in Coast Guard response after the 11 September attacks in 2001 when every US port was considered a target. Vice Adm Allen has direct experience of hurricane relief operations, overseeing about 15,000 search and rescue operations in south-eastern US and the Caribbean. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4238610.stm   (440 words)

USNA Superintendent Raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Van Nuys, Vice Admiral Rempt graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1966. Vice Admiral Rempt also worked in the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) where he initiated the development of Naval Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD). Vice Admiral Rempt subsequently served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Theater Combat Systems and as the first Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Missile Defense. www.usna.edu /PAO/supe.htm   (331 words)

Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) He graduated from the Naval War College in 1930, the Army War College in 1931 and in 1933-36 was aide to the Secretary of the Navy; in 1936-39 he was on the staff of the Bureau of Personnel. Shortly after this he was promoted to Vice Admiral and was in command of the combined USS Yorktown-USS Lexington Task Forces (later under Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch). Those present are (left to right): Admiral Nimitz; Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army; Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, USN; Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN and Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, U.S. Army. library.nps.navy.mil /home/midway/fletcher.htm   (1018 words)

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