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The ASROC has been deployed on scores of warships of many other navies, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of China, Greece, Pakistan and others.
Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.
Commodore is a military rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral.
Submarines were first widely used during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) and now figure in many large navies.
In the late 19th century, many navies started to build torpedo boats 30 to 50 m in length, armed with up to three torpedo launchers and small guns.
In many navies, vice admiral is a three-star rank with a NATO Code of OF-8, although in some navies like the French Navy it is an OF-7 rank, the OF-8 code corresponding to the four-star rank of squadron vice-admiral.
In many navies it is referred to as a two-star rank.
This has survived into the modern age, with the rank of rear admiral the most-junior of the admiralty ranks of many navies.
A Maat is considered the equivalent of a junior Petty Officer in the navies of many other nations.
Despite their low draft and subsequent problems in navigating in high seas, many basic design elements of the Monitor class were copied in future warships by other designers and navies.
The rank " corvette captain ", equivalent in many navies to " lieutenant commander ", derives from the name of this type of ship.
Lieutenant commander ( also hyphenated lieutenant-commander ) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies.
While many believe the Cholas were the first rulers noted to have a naval fleet in the Indian subcontinent, there are at least two evidences to cite use of navies.
For many decades naval technology had not advanced far enough for designers to produce a cruiser which combined an armored belt with the long range and high speed required to fulfill its mission ; for this reason, many navies preferred to build protected cruisers in the 1880s and early 1890s.
Although a cruiser would not likely face the largest-caliber guns of a battleship and many navies commonly used smaller weapons as they did not wear out as fast as larger ones did, cruisers still needed some form of protection to preclude being shot to pieces.
The Dark Ages ( c. 500 – c. 1000 ) saw many of the coastal cities of the Mezzogiorno develop into minor thalassocracies whose chief powers lay in their ports and their ability to sail navies to defend friendly coasts and ravage enemy ones.
Most navies also include many types of support and auxiliary vessels, such as minesweepers, patrol boats and offshore patrol vessels.
A midshipman is an officer cadet or a commissioned officer of the lowest rank, in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies.
Ranks equivalent to midshipman exist in many other navies.
Consequently, at the start of the war, many navies comprised newer ships and obsolete older ones.
In many documents, these navies were called, or simply pirates.
Lieutenant, junior grade ranks above ensign and below lieutenant and is equivalent to a first lieutenant in the other uniformed services ( the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force ) and sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and the navies of many Commonwealth countries.

many and rank
The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.
For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.
He would entertain as many as 500 persons of rank at one time, besides relieving the poor of the vicinity twice a week.
Then the Scythians began returning to their homeland, laden with booty and captives, among them many of senatorial rank.
In the latter, only taxa associated with a rank can be named, yet there are not enough ranks to name a long series of nested clades ; ranks determine the form of names, so names must in many cases change when a name is inserted into such a series ; and taxon names cannot be defined in a way that guarantees them to refer to clades.
However, Constantius realised that too many threats still faced the Empire, and he could not possibly handle all of them by himself, so on 6 November 355, he elevated his last remaining relative, Julian, to the rank of Caesar.
This gives a rather large number of different cases to check: there are not only 26 sporadic groups and 16 families of groups of Lie type and the alternating groups, but also many of the groups of small rank or over small fields behave differently from the general case and have to be treated separately, and the groups of Lie type of even and odd characteristic are also quite different.
These eschatological myths appeared " in the Crusades, in the movements of a Tanchelm and an Eudes de l ' Etoile, in the elevation of Fredrick II to the rank of Messiah, and in many other collective messianic, utopian, and prerevolutionary phenomena ".
The high flag rank officers, junior officers and many high command officers from the Pakistan's Armed Forces were highly cautious about their appointment in East-Pakistan, and the assignment of governing East Pakistan and appointment of an officer was considered highly difficult for the Pakistan High Military Command.
Menzies ' domination of the party, and the fact that Holt's succession had been established for many years, meant that a secure second rank of leadership had not been developed.
And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy.
In terms of total Disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs ), which is an estimate of how many years of life are lost due to premature death or to being in a state of poor health and disability, mental disorders rank amongst the most disabling conditions.
The rank system introduced for judo in the 1880s proved commercially viable, and colored-belt systems were adopted in many martial arts degree mills ( also known as McDojos, which were parodied in Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode “ Martial Arts ”, June 2010 ).
He was awarded a cluster of honours and medals, including many from overseas, and was promoted to the rank of captain.
The rank of centurion was an officer rank that included many grades, meaning centurions had very good prospects for promotion.
Like the " dimension of image " characterization this can be generalized to a definition of the rank of a linear map: the rank of a linear map f from V → W is the minimal dimension k of an intermediate space X such that f can be written as the composition of a map V → X and a map X → W. While this definition does not suggest an efficient manner to compute the rank ( for which it is better to use one of the alternative definitions ), it does allow to easily understand many of the properties of the rank, for instance that the rank of the transpose of A is the same as that of A.

many and commodore
Various models on which the Biggles character might have been based have been suggested – including rugby player and WWI flying ace Cyril Lowe, fighter pilot Albert Ball, and air commodore Arthur Bigsworth – in fact Johns himself stated that the character was a composite of many individuals in the RFC ( including himself ) but does not represent a single person.
Nevertheless, many women of the time did work outside the home ; for example, in the War of 1812 ( 1812 – 1815 ) Mary Marshall and Mary Allen worked as nurses aboard American commodore Stephen Decatur's ship United States.
The most senior military ranks in all services are classified by a star system in many countries, ranging from one-star rank which typically corresponds to brigadier, brigadier general, Commodore or air commodore, to the most senior five-star ranks which include Admiral of the Fleet, Grand Admiral, Field Marshal, General of the Army and Marshal of the Air Force which typically only exist during large scale conflicts.

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