Franklin Buchanan was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia.
Edward Walter Eberle was an admiral in the United States Navy,who served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and the third Chief of Naval Operations.
Rear Admiral Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the Mexican–American War,the American Civil War,as superintendent of the Naval Academy,president of the United States Naval Institute,and commander-in-chief of the Pacific Squadron.
Vice Admiral Morton Lyndholm Deyo was an officer in the United States Navy,who was a naval gunfire support task force commander of World War II.
United States Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) is the United States Navy element of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM). Its area of responsibility includes the Red Sea,Gulf of Oman,Persian Gulf,and Arabian Sea. It consists of the United States Fifth Fleet and several other subordinate task forces,including Combined Task Force 150,Combined Task Force 158 and others.
Hispanic and Latino Admirals in the United States Navy can trace their tradition of naval military service to the Latino sailors,who have served in the Navy in every war and conflict since the American Revolution. Prior to the Civil War,the highest rank reached by a Latino-American in the Navy was commodore. Such was the case of Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy (1792–1862),a Sephardic Jew of Latin American descent and great grandson of Dr. Samuel Nunez;Levy served in the War of 1812. During the American Civil War,the government of the United States recognized that the rapid expanding Navy was in need of admirals therefore,Congress proceeded to authorize the appointment of nine officers the rank of rear admiral. On July 16,1862,Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut became the first Hispanic-American to be appointed to the rank of rear admiral. Two years later (1864),Farragut became a vice admiral,and in 1866 the Navy's first full admiral. During World War I,Robert Lopez,the first Hispanic graduate of the United States Naval Academy,served with the rank of commodore in command of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard,and during World War II five Hispanics served with the ranks of rear admiral or above in either the European or Pacific Theaters of the war. As of April 2007,twenty-two Hispanic-Americans have reached the rank of admiral,and of this number thirteen were graduates of the USNA.
Hispanics in the United States Naval Academy account for the largest minority group in the institution. According to the academy,the Class of 2009 includes 271 (22.2%) minority midshipmen. Out of these 271 midshipmen,115 are of Hispanic heritage. In 2004,of the total of 736 female midshipmen,74 (10%) of them were of Hispanic descent.
The Commander,Naval Surface Force,Atlantic (COMNAVSURFLANT) is the Surface Force Type Commander (TYCOM) under the United States Fleet Forces Command. As Naval Surface Force Atlantic,it is a military formation,and the organization is often known as SURFLANT. Its headquarters are at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk,Virginia. The current commander is Rear Admiral Joseph F. Cahill III. COMNAVSURFLANT supervises all surface ships based on the Eastern United States and Gulf Coast of the United States,as well as ships forward deployed to Naval Station Rota,Spain.
David F. Sellers was an admiral in the United States Navy. He was the first person from New Mexico to graduate from the United States Naval Academy.
Harry Bean Jarrett was a highly decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of vice admiral. A veteran of several campaigns in Pacific during World War II,he distinguished himself during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942,while commanding destroyer Morris and received the Navy Cross,the second highest decoration of the United States military.
Sara Annette Joyner is a United States Navy officer. She is the first female strike fighter pilot to command a United States Navy fighter squadron and a carrier air wing. Her promotion to rear admiral was authorized by the United States Senate on 25 May 2017. On 24 February,the Secretary of Defence announced that Joyner would be promoted to the rank of rear admiral;she was pinned on 1 April 2021. She was promoted to vice admiral on 3 June 2022.
Lisa Marie Franchetti is a United States Navy admiral who has been the 33rd chief of naval operations since 2 November 2023. She is the first woman to be chief of naval operations,and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Edward Joseph O'Donnell was an American naval officer. He commanded the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base from December 1960 to 1963,during which the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. He then served as senior navy member of the Military Studies and Liaison division at The Pentagon and superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School before retiring as a rear admiral in 1967. After retirement,O'Donnell was president of the New York Maritime College until 1972.
Keith Bently Davids is a retired American United States Navy special warfare officer with the rank of rear admiral. He served as the commander of Naval Special Warfare Command from 2022 to 2024. He was the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command South,United States Southern Command from 2020 to 2022. Previously,he served as director of the White House Military Office during the first presidency of Donald Trump. Earlier in his career,he was commanding officer of the Naval Special Warfare Center and SEAL Team One.
John Vincent Fuller is a United States Navy vice admiral who serves as the 42nd Naval Inspector General since 11 June 2021. Prior to that,Fuller served as deputy director for force protection of the Joint Staff and before that as the director of strategy,plans,and policy of the United States Northern Command.
Amy N. Bauernschmidt is a United States Navy officer. She is the first woman to serve as the executive officer and then as the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Bauernschmidt assumed command of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on 19 August 2021.
James Adam Kirk is a retired United States Navy rear admiral and surface warfare officer who last served as the commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3 from November 18,2022 to June 9,2023. He previously served as a special assistant to the Commander,Naval Surface Force Pacific from June 2022 to November 2022;commander of Carrier Strike Group 15 from June 2021 to June 2022;and deputy commander and chief of staff for Joint Warfare Center,Allied Command Transformation in Stavanger,Norway.
