Rear Admiral
Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies. In most European navies, the equivalent rank is called counter admiral.
Rear admiral is usually immediately senior to commodore and immediately below vice admiral. It is ...
Jack Raymond Steer, is a retired
Royal New Zealand Navy
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; ) is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of eight ships. The Navy had its origins in the Naval Defence Act 1913, and the subsequent acquisition of the cruiser , whi ...
officer, who served as
Chief of Navy from 2012 to 2015.
Career
Born in
Christchurch
Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...
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Steer joined the
Royal New Zealand Navy
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; ) is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of eight ships. The Navy had its origins in the Naval Defence Act 1913, and the subsequent acquisition of the cruiser , whi ...
in 1973.
He served as chief of staff at
Joint Forces Headquarters from January 2003 to April 2004, when he was promoted to
commodore and appointed as Maritime Component Commander.
He was appointed Deputy Chief of Navy in January 2006, before taking up the position of
Commander Joint Forces New Zealand in May, with promotion to rear admiral. In February 2008, he was appointed
Vice Chief of Defence Force.
He served in the post until 2012, when he was appointed Chief of Navy.
Steer was appointed an
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the
1996 Queen's Birthday Honours.
References
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Living people
20th-century New Zealand military personnel
21st-century New Zealand military personnel
Military personnel from Christchurch
Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Royal New Zealand Navy admirals
Year of birth missing (living people)
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