Senior Staff of Galactica

Present Senior Staff

CIC

• Admiral William Adama - Commanding officer
• Colonel Saul Tigh - Executive officer
• Captain Kara Thrace - Commander Air Group (acting)
• Unknown (Formerly Lieutenant Felix Gaeta), Senior Officer of the Watch
• Lieutenant Louis Hoshi - Communications officer

Support

• Major Cottle - Chief Medical Officer

Marines

• Lieutenant Terry Burrell (seen only in "Sacrifice")
• Unnamed lieutenant (seen only in "Escape Velocity" and "A Disquiet Follows My Soul")

Chain of Command

The current commander of Galactica is Admiral Adama, and second-in-command is Colonel Tigh. Captain Karl Agathon has risen to third-in-command and has frequently filled in as executive officer. Beyond that the hierarchy is unclear. Major Cottle is a medical officer and outside of the chain of command, and Captain Aaron Kelly's detention ("The Son Also Rises") presumably removes him from the order of precedence.

Position Histories

Commanding Officer

• Commander William Adama (Miniseries to "Scattered") - Injured after assassination attempt
• Colonel Saul Tigh, Acting ("Scattered" to "The Farm") - Relinquishes command after Commander Adama returns to duty
• Admiral William Adama ("The Farm" to "Sine Qua Non") - Promoted to admiral by President Roslin (Resurrection Ship, Part II)
• Colonel (temporarily Admiral) Saul Tigh ("Sine Qua Non" to "Revelations") - Adama resigns position temporarily to search for Roslin
• Admiral William Adama ("Revelations" to "The Oath") - Adama returns to the Fleet, is deposed in a mutiny
• Lieutenant (unofficially, Commander) Felix Gaeta, de facto ("The Oath" to "Blood on the Scales") - Gaeta siezes command in a mutiny as part of a coup d'etat led by Tom Zarek.
• Admiral William Adama ("Blood on the Scales" to present) - Adama regains command by force; Gaeta is executed for mutiny.

Executive Officer

• Colonel Saul Tigh (Miniseries to "Scattered") - Assumes command when Commander Adama is injured during an assassination attempt
• Captain Aaron Kelly, Acting ("Scattered" to "The Farm") - Returns to regular duties when Commander Adama resumes command
• Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Farm" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica
• Captain Karl Agathon ("Occupation" to "The Passage") - Colonel Tigh resumes post
• Colonel Saul Tigh ("The Passage" to present. Interrupted by a short leave of absence in "Crossroads, Part I & II" and by temporary Fleet command from "Sine Qua Non" to "Revelations")

Tactical officer

• Lieutenant Felix Gaeta (Miniseries to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica (working as aide to President Baltar)
• Lieutenant Karl Agathon ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO
• Captain Aaron Kelly ("Occupation" to "The Passage") - Gaeta resumes post
• Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("The Passage" to "Six of One") - Joined crew of the Demetrius
• Lieutenant Hoshi ("The Ties That Bind" to "Sine Qua Non") - Gaeta resumes his duties after sufficiently recovering from his leg amputation
• Lieutenant Felix Gaeta ("Revelations" to "The Oath") - Gaeta take command of Galactica in a mutiny.
• Unknown (Blood on the Scales to present) - Gaeta is executed; no replacement yet named.

Communications Officer

• Petty Officer 2nd Class Anastasia Dualla (Miniseries to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Promoted to XO of Pegasus
• Unknown ("Occupation" to "Exodus, Part II")
• Lieutenant Hoshi ("Collaborators" to "Six of One") - Reassigned to Tactical Officer
• Unknown ("The Ties That Bind" to "Sine Qua Non") - Hoshi resumes his duties
• Lieutenant Hoshi ("Revelations" to present)

Commander, Air Group

• Major Jackson Spencer (Miniseries) - Killed in Action
• Captain Lee Adama (Miniseries to "The Captain's Hand") - Promoted to CO of Pegasus
• Captain George Birch ("Home, Part I" to "Home, Part II") - Temporary replacement for Captain Adama
• Captain Kara Thrace ("Downloaded" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica
• Captain Louanne Katraine ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "Collaborators") - Demoted when Major Adama resumes post. Posthumous and symbolic promotion (The Passage)
• Major Lee Adama ("Torn" to "The Son Also Rises") - Re-assigned as head of security for Romo Lampkin
• Captain Karl Agathon ("The Son Also Rises" to "Six of One". Interrupted by a temporary stint as XO to replace Col. Tigh in "Crossroads, Part I & II") - Joins crew of the Demetrius
• Unknown ("The Ties That Bind" to "Faith") - Demetrius returns
• Captain Karl Agathon ("Guess What's Coming to Dinner?") - Joins Resurrection Hub strike force
• Captain Kara Thrace, Acting ("Sine Qua Non" to present)

Chief Medical Officer

• Major Cottle (Miniseries to present, with the exception of his relocation to New Caprica)
• Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "Exodus, Part II")

Chief of the Deck

• Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol (Miniseries to "Pegasus") - Replaced by Pegasus's deck chief
• Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Pegasus" to "Resurrection Ship, Part II") - Laird reassigned to Pegasus
• Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("Epiphanies" to "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II") - Relocates to New Caprica
• Unknown ("Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" to "Exodus, Part II") - Tyrol resumes post
• Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol ("Collaborators" to "Escape Velocity") - Demoted by Admiral Adama
• Chief Petty Officer Peter Laird ("Escape Velocity" to "The Oath") - killed by Tom Zarek

Master-at-Arms

• Sergeant Hadrian (Presumably Miniseries to present, but last mentioned in "Valley of Darkness")

Landing Signal Officer

• Captain Aaron Kelly ("Miniseries" to "Scattered") - Re-assigned as acting XO
• Unknown ("Scattered" to "The Farm") - Aaron Kelly resumes post
• Captain Aaron Kelly ("The Farm" to "Exodus, Part I") - Re-assigned as tactical officer
• Unknown ("Exodus, Part I" to "Exodus, Part II") - Aaron Kelly resumes post
• Captain Aaron Kelly ("Collaborators" to "The Son Also Rises") - Put in detention with charges pending
• Unknown ("The Son Also Rises" to present)