Talk:Michelle Howard
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Would she be an awfully young person to be a rear admiral? I'm asking out of ignorance, but I have always thought of admirals as having lots of experience and consequently being of a good age. Have I just seen one too many Star Trek movies? Aleta Curry 03:39, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
- Technically, she's of the quaintly named "rear admiral of the lower half", which the Navy periodically calls Commodore; it's a one-star rank (cf. Brigadier). See her sleeve insignia? A two-star rear admiral would have that wide gold band but also a single narrower band.
- I don't think the Royal Navy has commodores, and captains jump to rear admiral; does the Australian Navy?
- Assuming she was 21 when she graduated from the Naval Academy, she'd have been born in 1961. A one-star admiral at 49 doesn't seem too extraordinary, although she certainly was fast-tracked. I still am hunting for a better biography, as I'd expect her to have attended one of the War Colleges or a civilian equivalent. Military Assistant to a senior civilian or a four-star is a typical pre-admiral assignment. The J-5 job is also "career enhancing".
- By comparison, David Petraeus, who has had a couple of four-star tours, was born in 1952.Howard C. Berkowitz 04:08, 26 August 2010 (UTC)