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A lieutenant commander providing medical care aboard USNS Comfort. Lieutenant commander (LCDR) is a junior officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps), with the pay grade of O-4 and NATO rank code OF-3.
LCDR Barbara Schooley became the first woman to assume command of a Reserve ship in the U.S. Navy. CDR Judy Chesser Coffman, of the U.S. Navy, was the first female helicopter pilot to fly in Antarctica, in support of the National Science Foundation. BUCM Carol Keehner became the first female seabee Master Chief in the U.S. Navy.
Navy Cross citation Lieutenant Commander John Charles Waldron U.S. Navy Date Of Action: June 4, 1942. The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Lieutenant Commander John Charles Waldron, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy while serving as Pilot of a carrier-based Navy Torpedo Plane and ...
Years of service. 1987–1994. Rank. Lieutenant. Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash ...
RADM Mark Fung. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion TWO SIX (NMCB 26) was a United States Navy Seabee battalion commissioned in 1942 for support to Naval Operations in the Pacific Theater in World War II and later a Reserve Naval Construction Battalion based in various locations in the Midwest from 1962 until 2014.
Lieutenant Commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, [1] LtCdr., [2] LCDR, [3] [4] or LCdr [5]) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander. The corresponding rank in most armies and air forces is major, and in the Royal Air Force and other ...
Thomas G. Kelley. Thomas Gunning Kelley (born May 13, 1939) is an American veteran and retired captain in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War. From 2003 to 2011 he served as Secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services. He served as the president of the Medal of Honor ...
Conflicts. Iraq War. Awards. Silver Star. Jonathan Yong Kim (born 5 February 1984), is an American U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, former SEAL, Navy flight surgeon, naval aviator, physician, and NASA astronaut . Born and raised in California, Kim enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the early 2000s before earning a Silver Star and his commission.