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Braithwaite trained as a naval aviator, and after 21 years of military service, was the first of his class to earn a flag rank.

Consider the sheer number of officers awarded flag rank in Venezuela.

Chang was among the first naturalized Asian American naval officers to achieve flag rank in the U.S. military.

In June 1874 he was appointed to the command of the “Monarch” in the Channel Fleet, from which he was relieved in March 1876 by his promotion to flag rank.

Naval Academy in 1985, colleagues sensed that Graf was on a fast track to flag rank.