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 ...

, Steer joined the

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.

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