What is "brigadier generals"

Usage examples of "brigadier generals".

The sergeant obviously didn't like to hear that, but sergeants do not argue with brigadier generals.

Officers, even brigadier generals, are as reluctant to be seen driving Cadillac Fleetwoods as they are for their wives to be seen in full-length mink coats.

Colonel Ma-gruder was the most senior officer in time of service, and the most experienced tactician, but there were Kuwaitis more senior in rank--all three brigades were commanded by brigadier generals--and it was their country.

Rear Admirals, lower half, are equivalent to Army and Marine Corps Brigadier Generals.

Army and Marine Corps Major Generals wear two silver stars as the insignia of their rank, while Army and Marine Corps Brigadier Generals wear just one star.

This practice is said to annoy many Army and Marine Corps Brigadier Generals, particularly when they learn that they actually outrank the Rear Admiral, lower half, whom they have just saluted crisply.

But where brigadier generals wear only one star, rear admirals (lower half) wear two silver stars, as do rear admirals (upper half) and major generals.

Winfield Scott was one of its two remaining brigadier generals of the line and commanded the eastern department of the military.

Colonels and brigadier generals begin to emerge from the shadows of the jungle, like some especially bizarre native tribe, clutching their attache cases talismanically.

Chafing under the leash of all the Pentagon majors, chicken colonels and brigadier generals who automatically veto his ideas.