List of United States Coast Guard tombstone vice admirals

A tombstone promotion transferred an officer to the retired list with the rank and sometimes the pay of the next higher grade.[7] A similar incentive had long been offered to Navy staff corps officers, who could retire in the grade of commodore after 40 years.[9] On July 1, 1946, Lloyd T. Chalker became the second Coast Guard officer to achieve three-star rank when he retired as a vice admiral after more than 40 years of service.[13] Even after that date, Wilfrid N. Derby and Joseph E. Stika were still able to retire as vice admirals because they had already accumulated 40 years of service prior to the repeal.The following list of Congressional legislation includes all acts of Congress pertaining to appointments to the grade of vice admiral in the United States Coast Guard before 1960.