Military missions, informally

Usage examples of ops.

Thomasina Penn, went back to the plot table to continue work on their route, but it was perfunctory as they were running box ops, hiding from a hurricane-force low in the lee of St.

Running box ops meant steering a course confined within a box drawn on the radar screen that out of sheer boredom on occasion resembled the initials of the officer on watch.

Sara said, and Ops went to the nav station to coax the sat phone into operation, which he alone on board seemed to be able to do.

She returned it to Ops and took an unobtrusive step back, she hoped far enough out of range.

Sara, Ops, and the Engineer Officer, a tall, pencil-thin young man who could barely find his way to the bridge but who could disassemble a Caterpillar generator and put it back together again blindfolded.

So could Ops, who was regarding the table with a rapt look, as if by not making eye contact the captain might forget that he was present.

Sara and Ops and Tommy and the chief were hunched over the chart table, staring at the Transas screen as Sara right-clicked and dragged and dropped them all the way up the Aleutian Chain and back down again.

No one has called you anything but Ops in my hearing since I came on board.

She looked up to see Ops standing in front of her with a concerned look on his face.

Dain about it, but his old team leader was pretty much persona non grata in Ops these days and frequenting the same downtown corner market was as close as JB dared get.

Being caught using Ops info to get reward money from freelance justice was grounds for dismissal, if not worse.

Trask passing his Ops training to you, but did you ever think about trying to get into the Academy for one of the Ops teams?

We mechs are supposed to be nothing more than cyborgs that the humans in Ops control.

And he was back on the Grid with who-even-knew-how-long before Ops realized the connection was there for the taking.

Not only are you back on the Grid where Ops can find you if they know where to look, but you killed the guy who put you there.