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Navy - Secretary of the Navy (U.S.)

Overview
Secretary of the Navy
Under Secretary of the Navy
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air

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Overview

Here are the personal flags of the senior civilian officials of the U.S. Department of the Navy. They are depicted in the form flown aboard ships.

U.S. Navy civilian officials' personal flags (not "positional colors"--that term is used only by the Army) come in four sizes:

52x66 inches for indoor and ceremonial display, in which case they are trimmed with 2 1/2 inch "gold" (i.e., yellow" fringe) and golden yellow cord and tassels.
43x61 1/2 inches for display aboard ships, boats, and on fixed poles outdoors.
22x32 inches, also for ships, boats, and fixed poles. Choice of size depends on size of ship, height of pole, size of other flags displayed, etc.
12x15 inches, for automobiles.

By Navy Regulations, these flags are broken at the main truck of a vessel of the Navy, or at the normal point of hoist of the commander's flag at a shore installation, throughout the visit of the corresponding official. Only the flag of the senior official visiting is flown. Joe McMillan, 17 August 1999

Secretary of the Navy

image by Joe McMillan, 22 August 1999

Secretary of the Navy - Adopted 1867. Blue with a white upright foul anchor and a white star in each corner. For indoor or ceremonial display, or when flown in the bow of a boat, the staff is topped with a brass spread eagle.
Joe McMillan, 22 August 1999

Construction sheet: Secretary of the Navy
Created 13 November 1985. Supersedes original drawing created 18 July 1949.
Base: Old Glory Blue (Cable 80075)
Anchor and stars: White (Cable 80001)

Dave Fowler, 9 July 2022

Under Secretary of the Navy

image by Joe McMillan, 22 August 1999

Under Secretary of the Navy - Adopted 1940. Same with a white anchor and stars on red field. The finial for indoor, ceremonial, or boat use is a brass halberd.
Joe McMillan, 22 August 1999

Construction sheet: Under Secretary of the Navy
Created 13 November 1985. Supersedes original drawing created 18 July 1949.
Base: Old Glory Red (Cable 80108)
Anchor and stars: White (Cable 80001)

Dave Fowler, 9 July 2022

Assistant Secretary of the Navy

image by Joe McMillan, 22 August 1999

Assistant Secretary of the Navy - Adopted 1892. Same with a blue anchor and stars on a white field. The finial for indoor, ceremonial, or boat use is a brass halberd.
Joe McMillan, 22 August 1999

Construction sheet: Assistant Secretaries of the Navy
Created 13 November 1985. Supersedes original drawing created 18 July 1949.
Base: White (Cable 80001)
Anchor and stars: Old Glory Blue (Cable 80075)

Dave Fowler, 9 July 2022

Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air

image by Miles Li, 4 February 2004

The flag for the US Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. This flag was shown on Flags of All Nations (HMSO, 1955), and is now obsolete.
Miles Li, 4 February 2004

The position of ASN for Aeronautics was established in 1926. It was left vacant from 1932 to 1941, and retitled "ASN for Air" shortly after being filled in September 1941. It was then definitively abolished in 1959.
Joe McMillan, 5 February 2004

"Established in 1926, the office was redesignated Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development) as of 6 February 1959. This office was again redesignated to Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Engineering and Systems) in April 1977. The office was disestablished in 1990, and the duties were combined with Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and Logistics) into Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions)."
Jim Ferrigan, 27 February 2008