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Martayn Van de Wall, 2023–2024 first captain Lauren Drysdale, 2022–2023 first captain John Tien, 1987 first captain, and former deputy secretary for the United States Department of Homeland Security. The Corps of Cadets at the United States Military Academy (USMA), at West Point, New York, is organized into a brigade. The senior ranking ...
Instituted in 1872, First Captain is a leadership position, the senior ranking member of the 4,400 Corps of Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. (Not to be confused with the salaried Army enlisted rank of Captain (United States O-3).) Note that the PDF United States Military Academy sourcing for the list of ...
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. (June 4, 1922 – October 22, 2004) was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral.
Historical accounts for early U.S. naval history now occur across the spectrum of two and more centuries. This Bibliography lends itself primarily to reliable sources covering early U.S. naval history beginning around the American Revolution period on through the 18th and 19th centuries and includes sources which cover notable naval commanders, Presidents, important ships, major naval ...
American Captain of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and the first African-American to command a ship of the United States government. United States: Yes 1839 1904 Hirose, Takeo. Japanese naval officer during the Russo-Japanese War whose sacrifice elevated him to the status of national hero. Japan: Yes 1868 1904 Henderson, Joseph
The pictorial book of the commodores: comprising lives of distinguished commanders in the navy of the United States. New York: Nafis and Cornish. ISBN 1-55750-839-9. Guttridge, Leonard F. (2006). Our Country, Right Or Wrong: The Life of Stephen Decatur. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. ISBN 978-0-7653-0702-6. Hattendorf, John B. (2011).
[1] [2] Barry was the first captain placed in command of an American warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag. [3] After the Revolutionary War, he became the first commissioned American naval officer, at the rank of commodore , receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797.
Captain Washington Irving Chambers, USN (April 4, 1856 – September 23, 1934) was a 43-year, career United States Navy officer, who near the end of his service played a major role in the early development of U.S.Naval aviation, serving as the first officer to have oversight of the Navy's incipient aviation program through the Bureau of Navigation.