Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

In contemporary use in the U. S. Armed Forces, the Legion of Merit is typically awarded to Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force general officers and colonels, and Navy and Coast Guard flag officers and captains occupying command or very senior staff positions in their respective services.

Lords, ladies, Roman senators, tribunes, a Dutch gentleman, a Spanish gentleman, a soothsayer, musicians, officers, captains, soldiers, messengers, and other attendants

The captains of the Bastille during this period were primarily officers and royal functionaries ; Philippe de Melun was the first captain to receive a salary in 1462, being awarded 1, 200 livres a year.

Two Swiss officers, the captains Henri de Salis and Joseph Zimmermann, did however survive and went on to reach senior rank under Napoleon and the Restoration.

Aboard ship, only captains and admirals were assigned personal stewards, with the other officers being served by a pool of officers ' stewards.

However, there are some administrative and other duties at battalion level and larger ( brigade or division ) which are also handled by captains, for example the S-1 through S-4 officers of a battalion, or some staff positions in the G shops at division.

Its lieutenant-colonel, Fenwick, and two of its captains were killed, and nearly all the rest of its officers were wounded.

On the parade square, the RSM, with his pace stick, is " king " as he has authority over all soldiers and even has the power to order punishment for subalterns ( junior commissioned officers such as captains and lieutenants ).

Many who fought for the CIA in the conflict remained loyal after the event ; some Bay of Pigs veterans became officers in the US Army in Vietnam, including six colonels, 19 lieutenant colonels, nine majors, and 29 captains.

Until 1780 captains of the HAC trained the officers of the London Trained Bands.

Lilian and Universindo's later testimony also proved that four officers of the secret Uruguayan Counter-information Division – two majors and two captains – took part in the operation under consent of the Brazilian authorities.

The Department's lieutenants, captains, battalion chiefs, deputy chiefs, medical officers and supervising fire marshals are represented by the Uniformed Fire Officers Association ( UFOA ), while regular firefighters and fire marshals are represented by the Uniformed Firefighters Association ( UFA ), both of which are locals of the International Association of Fire Fighters.

In order to accommodate them they initially provided for an officer corps to consist of four captains, four commanders, 30 lieutenants, and various other non-line officers.

Junior officers ( army captains and lieutenants and their navy equivalents ) accounted for only about 25 % of all awards.

Major Gustavus von Tempsky, near the palisade, was shot dead while awaiting orders, and two other officers – two captains and two lieutenants – were also killed.

One major reason for the delay was that Navy leaders preferred the apprenticeship system, citing famous officers such as Nelson and the captains of the War of 1812 who did not attend a formal naval school.

First established in the 18th century, these artificial ponds provided a pastime for sea captains and ships ' officers during wintertime.

The rank insignia was silver for senior officers and gold for the bars of captains and first lieutenants.

As was expected ( and hoped ) by the courts, the Tsar commuted the death-sentenced captains to short prison terms and pardons for the remaining officers.

Nearly 5, 000 men were captured, including three general officers, 34 field officers, 70 captains and 150 subaltern officers.

The legislative struggle to enforce laws against brutal ship's captains and the requirement that two-thirds of sailors be Americans was proposed and the effort was carried for thirty years by Andrew Furuseth and the Sailors ' Union of the Pacific after 1908, and the International Seamen's Union of America.

The town was mostly known for its many local sea captains and sailors whose homes were in town, although there were also some small shipbuilding operations on the harbor as well.

On July 7, 1846 — seven weeks after war had been declared, Sloat instructed the captains of the ships of the Pacific Squadron in Monterey Bay to occupy Monterey with their Marines and Navy sailors.

This military – business custom was respected because professional reputation ( business credibility ) was everything to the condottieri ; a deceived employer was a reputation ruined ; likewise for maritime mercenaries, whose contratto d ’ assento ( contract of assent ) stipulated naval military-service terms and conditions ; sea captains and sailors so-contracted were called assentisti.

In George III and the Regency period the town was home to many navy personnel – four admirals, numerous captains, and other commissioned and non-commissioned sailors.

Improvised verses sung by sailors spoke of ills with work conditions and captains.

Marstal, also known as " skipper " village, is home to many sailors and captains and currently serves as the island's shopping center.

Isaac, or more likely Margaritone, won a victory over the Byzantine troops and captured the captains, whom he took off to Sicily, while the rest of the sailors remained on Cyprus, to fend for themselves as best they could.

Dudley recruited 275 veteran sailors, including the navigator Abraham Kendal, and the captains Thomas Jobson and Benjamin Wood.

While adult sailors received their lashes on the back, they were administered to boys on the bare posterior, usually while " kissing the gunner's daughter " ( bending over a gun barrel ), just as boys ' lighter " daily " chastisement was usually over their ( often naked ) rear-end ( mainly with a cane – this could be applied to the hand, but captains generally refused such impractical disablement – or a rope's end ).

His last words were, roughly, a warning to captains to treat their sailors well and pay them on time.

Finally, at a council meeting of captains, pilots, soldiers and sailors on August 7, 1568, the decision was made to return to Peru.

But the sailors want no more captains and throw him overboard alongside Denham, Englehorn, Hilda and the cook, Charlie.

They retreated back to Korea, presumably at the prodding of their Korean sailors and captains, rather than regrouping and continuing their attack.

It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.

The captains of these ships — Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath ( Golden Cat ) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom ( Orange Tree )— named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island.

Charles Gutzlaff, a Prussian missionary, to interpret for their ship captains during coastal smuggling of opium, using the idea that the reverend would best gather more converts during these smuggling operations.

Many of these precinct captains held patronage jobs with the city, mostly minor posts at low pay.

John Paul Jones was one of these captains for whom Hewes was instrumental in providing a command.

The selected players then choose two of these individuals as team captains.

The River Plate presented new opportunities for these captains of free enterprise.

On land, these wars were primarily fought by armies of mercenaries known as condottieri, bands of soldiers drawn from around Europe, but especially Germany and Switzerland, led largely by Italian captains.

Around these two monuments, one can see the remains of many other monuments erected by merchants, sea captains, and bankers.

It is known that they were in earnest for the establishment of a government on broad lines ; and it is certain that the ministers and captains, the magistrates and men of affairs, forceful in the settlements from the beginning, were the men who took the lead, guided the discussions, and found the root of the whole matter in the first written declaration of independence in these historical orders.

This however was not achieved, for the two captains were unable, or unwilling to complete these manoeuvres on such short notice.

Many of these captains of industry, in addition to building the still fledgeling American economy, participated in immense acts of philanthropy ( referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the " Gospel of Wealth ") and used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.

Benbow instigated the trial and later imprisonment or execution of a number of the captains involved, though he did not live to see these results.

Manchester United has had both of these types of captains ; Roy Keane was the club captain on and off the pitch from 1997 to 2005 as he was a regular in the starting eleven, but his successor Gary Neville while nominally club captain from 2005 to 2010 had made few first team appearances due to injuries and in his absence other players ( Rio Ferdinand or vice-captain Ryan Giggs ) were chosen to skipper the team on the field, such as in the 2008 ( Ferdinand was captain as he was in the starting XI, while Giggs was a substitute ) and 2009 UEFA Champions League Finals, respectively.

In reality the several squadrons began to block each other's line of sight, those flagofficers and captains most hungry for battle left the less enthusiastic and older ships quickly behind, while company ships — never trained in these tactics — behaved as if no other vessels were present and this disorder caused a part of the English line to shift over some heavier Dutch ships who only just managed to escape to their main force.

Sheridan gave the surviving captains three choices, he would offer these same three choices to other Earth ships loyal to Clark: first, they could return to Earth and continue to fight with Clark ; second, they could stay and defend Proxima 3 and other Earth colonies from future attacks ; and three, they could join Sheridan and other rebel Earth warships and liberate Earth.

* For the toss ( if done ), both the players ( or the captains / players of the team ) select from ' odd ' and ' even ' and make throws ; if the sum of these ( i. e. their nos.

Usually these were generic pirates, but some were given quite a bit of character and even included a handful of captains.

De Ruyter read a message from the stadtholder to his captains, informing them they were not only the champions of their nation but of the whole of christendom and that for any cowards " the least safe place will be the ports of the State for there they shall escape neither the severe hand of Justice nor the curse and hatred of their compatriots ", many later being overheard repeating these words to themselves.

He arranged with the captains of the Hamburg steamers to take these soldiers across the ocean at half price, and together with some friends he " made up a little purse " with which they could be sent to Hamburg.

The principal owners of the vessel are two well-to-do Quaker retired whaling captains, therefore " the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the whole management of the ship's affairs to these two.

One of Livingston's captains, Jeremy Duggan, had, on September 13, floated two nine-pound guns past St. Jean, and these guns were put to use to that end.

Unlike the 1959 champion who dominated with 20 wins and one defeat, these captains had to earn his stripes.