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From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Rank of military officers
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.015853.3664@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 01:58:53 GMT
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From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger)

In article <1991Feb5.043249.6192@cbnews.att.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes:
|
|  Army-AirForce-Marine      Navy                   Insignia 
|  -----------------------------------------------------------
|  Brigadier General         Rear Admiral(l/h*)     1-star  
|                            (*Rear Admiral (lower half) wears 2-stars)

Rear Admiral (lower half) is a one-star rank with one-star insignia.  Prior
to the re-creation of a USN one-star rank, the lower half of the Rear Admiral
list did indeed wear two-star insignia, but this has not been the case since
at least the mid-1980's.


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