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Usage examples of admirals.

Most admirals throughout the headquarters called staff subordinates by their first names.

Now the Navy band was assembled on one side of the grassy hillside, playing appropriately funereal music while the admirals and retired admirals stirred uncomfortably on their folding chairs.

Sherman was standing in front of the desk, and the other two admirals were sitting in adjacent chairs to one side.

Karen recalled what Galanti had said about the admirals being part of this.

The two admirals were going to join Sherman on the retired list, each minus a star.

Old Terra, and the Federation had always granted its admirals broad authority to run wars on the Frontier.

Either he wanted to be present when they met the Confederation forces, or he too mistrusted the admirals enthusiasm.

They glared at a thick-bellied Garthid in a simple green mantle, and she felt the admirals hatred.

That polite, grasshopper-thin voice came from the oldest of the admirals, the centenarian Hajime Shoji.

But Nelson made answer, that the Navigation Act was included in the statutes of the Admiralty, with which every captain was furnished, and that Act was directed to admirals, captains, to see it carried into execution.

This appointment to a service in which so much honor might be acquired, gave great offence to the senior admirals of the fleet.

I am to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service.

Manning had a standard reply to that question: a long, rebuking look framed in silence that made it clear that when the admirals in their power and glory resplendent were ready to enlighten the summonee, they would do so.

A branch-head captain who took advantage of such connections would be taking his chances with the one-, two-, and three-star admirals in the Opnav chain of command between Summerfield and the Vice Chief of Naval Operations.

And since Summerfield had been an EA himself and was a classmate of admirals, Dan felt that he knew what he was talking about.