Commodore (United States)
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Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and also has been a rank in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the Nation
Grace Hopper being promoted to the rank of commodore in 1983
Commodore Charles F. Clark (US Navy) in 1984, with one-star insignia.
The command pennant of the Commander, Submarine Squadron 16 (COMSUBRON 16) above the squadron's headquarters at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia.
Grace Hopper
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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of ma
Commodore (United States)
…seniority. This made the rear admirals in the upper half of seniority, the only ones to be equal to that of a major general. World War II and the Cold War Grace Hopper being promoted to the rank of commodore in 1983 During the huge expansion of the U.S. Navy during World War II, the Department of the Navy was concerned…
Hopper in 1984
Hopper's name on a duty roster for the Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard, which built and operated the Mark I
Hopper at the UNIVAC I console, c. 1960
Hopper in a computer room in Washington, D.C., 1978, photographed by Lynn Gilbert