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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.
		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.
		In the United States Navy, Vice Admirals generally command the numbered fleets around the world that make up the naval components of each of the regional unified commands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vice_Admiral (417 words)

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

	Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Admiral (359 words)

	vice_admiral_thad_w.htm
		Vice Adm. Allen is married to the former Pamela A. Hess of
		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 was designated the Principal Federal Official in Sept. 2005 for hurricane Katrina response and recovery activities in
	www.uscg.mil /vice_admiral_thad_w.htm (384 words)

	WIC Biography - Vice Admiral Patricia Ann Tracey
		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 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 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)

	James Stockdale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Stockdale is also remembered as a Vice Presidential candidate in the 1992 election on Ross Perot's independent ticket.
		He was the highest ranking naval officer held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Stockdale (1789 words)

	Vice Admiral J. E. Stika
		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 Joseph Edward Stika was born on 21 September 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
		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 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.
		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.
	www.mishalov.com /DeWolf.html (802 words)

	Navy officer to head Integrated Defence Staff
		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.
		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.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/20navy.htm (388 words)

	NATO/IMS: Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks, KCB - DIMS
		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.
		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 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.
	www.nato.int /ims/bios/haddacks-e.htm (473 words)

	Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa
		Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War Two.
		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.
		Ozawa commanded the Japanese fleet that fought and was defeated at the Battle of the Philippine Sea and he fought at Leyte Gulf.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /vice_admiral__jisaburo_ozawa.htm (380 words)

	Debating Our Destiny: Admiral James Stockdale
		ADMIRAL JAMES STOCKDALE: No. Now, after the debate, Sybil and I opted for Secret Service protection, and then went on some campaigns, but never a flashy performance...
		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.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/debatingourdestiny/interviews/stockdale.html (2165 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)

	Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, Ret.
		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.
		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.
		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.
	ethics.acusd.edu /values/Stockdale/Sherman/Stockdale.html (312 words)

	Admiral von Scheer
		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.
		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.
	www.100megsfree2.com /jjscherr/scherr/vonscheer.htm (1992 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)

	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)

	Vice Admiral John Colin De Silva, PVSM, AVSM, Indian Navy
		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)

	USS McMorris - Vice Admiral Charles Horatio McMorris, USN
		Vice Admiral McMorris was born in Wetumpka, Alabama, on August 31, 1890.
		He was temporarily promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral from September 23, 1944 until July 1948, when he reverted to the rank of Rear Admiral.
		During the following years, Vice Admiral McMorris served as Commander, Fourth Fleet and president of the General Board at the Navy Department.
	www.ussmcmorris.org /vadm_mac.html (504 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.
		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.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/debatingourdestiny/92debates/vp1.html (4027 words)

	CHIPS: Vice Admiral Harvey E. Johnson Jr. Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area U.S. Maritime Defense Zone Pacific Regional Emergency Transportation Coordinator
		Vice Admiral Harvey Johnson assumed the duties of Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area in June 2004.
		Vice Adm. Johnson: Shortly after 9/11, the commandant directed development of the Coast Guard's Maritime Strategy for Homeland Security because he saw a need to provide a clear sense of strategic direction to strengthen security within the maritime domain.
		Vice Adm. Johnson: The Coast Guard is designated as the lead federal agency for maritime homeland security.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0OBA/is_2_23/ai_n13787841 (1500 words)

	France: Naval rank flags - General officers
		The flag of a Vice Admiral of Squad (Vice-Amiral d'Escadre) is a square tricolour flag with four blue stars placed 1-2-1 in the middle of the white stripe.
		The flag of an Admiral of France (Amiral de France) is a square tricolour flag with two blue marshal's batons placed in saltire in the middle of the white stripe.
		The flag of an Admiral (Amiral) is a square tricolour flag with five blue stars placed 1-1-2-1 in the middle of the white stripe.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr~nav.html (192 words)

	Vice-Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich
		He became friends with Admiral Layton, commander of the China Station and it resulted in an excellent cooperation between the two.
		To go on with Helfrich, he was given command of all naval forces in August 1945 (apparently including the ships in Europe), was promoted to Luitenant-Admiraal (Full Admiral ??) and was the Dutch government's representative aboard the USS battleship Missouri on September 2 1945.
		During December 1941, he was an advocate of forming a fleet which could attack the enemy where he was vulnerable.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/helfrich.html (628 words)

	CNN.com - Perot running mate Stockdale dies at 81 - Jul 5, 2005
		A portrait of Vice Adm. James Stockdale taken when he was president of the Naval War College.
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale, a former prisoner of war and Ross Perot's running mate for president in 1992, died Tuesday at 81, the Navy announced.
		"Admiral Stockdale challenged the human limits of moral courage, physical endurance and intellectual bravery, emerging victorious as a legendary beacon for all to follow," Clark said in a news release.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/07/05/stockdale.obit (498 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.
		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.
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4238610.stm (440 words)

	Vice Adm Timothy Keating Briefing via Satellite-Teleconference from Bahrain
		Admiral Keating is the commander of all maritime forces involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom, a force that includes five aircraft carrier battle groups, and 20 amphibious ships.
		Whitman: Admiral, I think we'll start here in the Pentagon with a couple of questions, and then we'll see where we have folks in the other media centers.
		Admiral, this is Tony Capaccio with Bloomberg News.
	www.defenselink.mil /transcripts/2003/tr20030412-0092.html (5409 words)

	Admiral George W. Emery - Class of 1959
		Prior to his final assignment, Vice Admiral Emery commanded the attack submarines on the Untied States Pacific coast as Commander Submarine Group FIVE in San Diego.
		It is for his many accomplishments during his career in the U.S. Navy and with Raytheon that Vice Admiral George W. Emery has been selected as an inaugural member of the Sanford High School Hall of Fame.
		Admiral Emery is married to the former Patricia Lillian Kershaw of Sanford, Maine.
	www.paulauger.com /halloffame/inductees/Emery.html (2182 words)

	Vice Admiral Fry
		Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Vice Admiral Fry graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1971 and was assigned to sea duty.
		Vice Admiral Fry’s first flag assignment was on the Joint Staff as Deputy Director for Strategy and Policy, J-5.
		Vice Admiral Fry’s personal military decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (five awards), Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy Commendation Medal and various campaign, service and unit awards.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/symposia/jointops00/fry.html (252 words)

	Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale, U.S.N. (retired).
		Subsequently, he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, and then to Vice Admiral, the rank in which he retired from active duty.
		Admiral Stockdale (then a Commander), was the Commander of Carrier Air Wing 16, on board the carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34), when he flew on a mission with Attack Squadron 163 on September 9, 1965.
		Admiral Stockdale looked at the camera and asked, “Why am I here?” Neither Quayle, Gore, the press nor the viewers understood what he was saying.
	www.skyhawk.org /3E/va163/stockdale.htm (602 words)

	Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.
		Admiral Gravely is the father of three children, Robert (deceased), David and Tracey and currently resides in Haymarket, Virginia with his lovely wife Alma.
		Admiral Gravely was recalled to active duty in 1949.
		Admiral Gravely went from recruiting sailors to building a Navy career that lasted 38 years and included many distinguished accomplishments.
	raahistory.com /military/navy/gravely.htm (363 words)

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