Fleet admiral (United States)
Fleet admiral is a five-star flag officer rank in the United States Navy whose rewards uniquely include active duty pay for life. Fleet admiral ranks immediately above admiral and is equivalent to General of the Army and General of the Air Force.
Image: FADM Ernest J. King
Image: Chester Nimitz as CNO (cropped)
Image: W Halsey
Image: Fleet Admiral Leahy
A five-star rank is the highest military rank in many countries. The rank is that of the most senior operational military commanders, and within NATO's standard rank scale it is designated by the code OF-10. Not all armed forces have such a rank, and in those that do the actual insignia of the five-star ranks may not contain five stars. For example: the insignia for the French OF-10 rank maréchal de France contains seven stars; the insignia for the Portuguese marechal contains four gold stars. The stars used on the various Commonwealth of Nations rank insignias are sometimes colloquially referred to as pips, but in fact either are stars of the orders of the Garter, Thistle or Bath or are Eversleigh stars, depending on the wearer's original regiment or corps, and are used in combination with other heraldic items, such as batons, crowns, swords or maple leaves.
General Emilio Aguinaldo, the first holder of five-star rank as the first president and commander-in-chief of the Philippines
General Douglas MacArthur, the first and currently the only field marshal in Philippine history
Gravestone of Omar Bradley, with five-star insignia.