* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy

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.

This immediately caused confusion with those senior U. S. Navy captains commanding destroyer squadrons, submarine squadrons, functional air wings and air groups, and so on, who held the temporary " title " of commodore.

The " title " of commodore continues to be used in the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard for those senior captains in command of organizations consisting of groups of ships or submarines organized into squadrons ; air wings or air groups of multiple aviation squadrons other than carrier air wings ( the latter whose commanders still use the title " CAG "); explosive ordnance disposal ( EOD ), mine warfare and special warfare ( SEAL ) groups ; and construction battalion ( SeaBee ) regiments.

Although not flag officers, modern day commodores in the U. S. Navy rate a blue and white command pennant that is normally flown at their headquarters facilities ashore or from ships that they are embarked aboard when they are the senior officer afloat.

In the Argentine Navy, the rank of commodore was created in the late 1990s, and is usually, but not always, issued to senior captains holding rear-admirals ' positions.

The Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ) is a statutory office () held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior naval officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy.

On 1 October 1977, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, was established as the senior US Navy command on the island.

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.

The Nigerian Merchant Navy is not a legally recognized body, but the senior officers are represented by the Merchant Navy Officers ' and Water Transport Senior Staff Association.

in the Red Navy ; the other senior functional ranks (" Division Commissar ", " Division Engineer ", etc.

* Warrant Officer of the Navy, the most senior non commissioned officer rank in the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN )

The most senior non-commissioned member of the Navy is the Warrant Officer appointed Warrant Officer of the Navy ( WO-N ).

* Buffer ( navy ), the colloquial term for the senior seaman sailor in a ( British Commonwealth ) Navy ship

The United States Navy decided to send eight men to this project, including three civilians and one senior and four junior naval officers.

Most commonly assisted by a Commissioning Support Team ( CST ), the Prospective Commanding Officer and ship's crew, shipbuilder executives, and senior Navy representatives come together for a formal ceremony placing the ship in active service ( in commission ) to her country.

In France, vice-amiral is the most senior of the ranks in the French Navy ; higher ranks, vice-amiral d ' escadre and amiral, are permanent functions, style and position ( in French rang et appellation ) given to a vice-amiral-ranking officer.

Indian Navy also maintains a rear admiral rank senior to commodore and captain ranks and junior to vice admiral ( and admiral ) ranks.

A rear admiral in the Pakistani Navy is a senior and two-star rank naval officer, appointed in higher naval commands.

* Dr Desmond Curran MB FCP DPM, senior Psychiatrist at St George's Hospital, London and psychiatric consultant to the Royal Navy

For instance, in the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal is considered a somewhat high decoration reserved for Department Head level officers at the O-4 level, senior Navy CPOs and senior Marine Corps NCOs at the E-8 and E-9 level and, following a full career, as a retirement award.

Roman military tribunes ( tribuni militum ), senior officers in Roman legions, wore a similar purple band so the reference may be to a family background of military leadership.

At least 162 killings in 19 countries have been linked to the senior leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A senior source from Republican Sinn Féin said: " We would see them purported new leadership as just another splinter group that has broken away.

Senior officers often kept the money intended for the soldiers, typifying a generally disreputable and inept senior leadership in the FAZ.

Beginning in 1936, he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he held a large number of leadership positions including president of the senior class, secretary of the student council, president of the community fund-raising group, a member of the editorial board of the school newspaper, and captain of both the varsity baseball and soccer teams.

Some Afghan groups ( including the former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh and opposition leader Dr. Abdullah Abdullah ) believe that Karzai plans to appease the insurgents ' senior leadership at the cost of the democratic constitution, the democratic process and progress in the field of human rights especially women's rights.

In 1948, King retired, and quietly persuaded his senior ministers to support St-Laurent's selection as the new Liberal leader at the Liberal leadership convention of August 1948.

* The German senior level ( naval and national ) leadership requested the Vichy French to send warships from Dakar and / or Côte d ' Ivoire to pick up the survivors.

Junior officers were appointed to fill the ranks of the senior leadership, many of whom lacked broad experience.

Over a year after Robson assumed the leadership, at a party meeting on 20 September 1955, senior party member Ken McCaw moved that the leadership be declared vacant, citing that Robson's leadership lacked the qualities necessary for winning the next election.

After the senior Romulan leadership was assassinated in the Romulan Senate, the Remans took over the Senate and Shinzon became Praetor ; he was, however, dispatched by Captain Jean-Luc Picard shortly afterwards.

The military government responded fiercely after arresting the senior socialists ' leadership, notably Bhutto, Mubashir Hassan, and Malick Mirage.

Bourke held a high position as chieftain of a senior branch of his sept. Because of his sept leadership he would eventually be eligible for election as Mac William, the second most powerful office in Connacht.

In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials who were accused of taking a " capitalist road ", most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.

Many military officers elevated to senior positions were loyal to Lin Biao, opening a new factional divide between the military and civilian leadership.

The VVD is currently the senior party in a centre-right minority government coalition together with the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ) under the leadership of VVD party leader Mark Rutte.

Bragg's subordinates had long been dissatisfied with his leadership and abrasive personality ; the arrival of Longstreet ( the senior lieutenant general in the Army ) and his officers, added credibility to the earlier claims, and was a catalyst toward action.

Radical market-orientated reforms, of the kind eventually adopted by Margaret Thatcher, were in the mid-1960s backed only by a ' fringe ' of enthusiasts ( such as the leadership of the later-influential Institute of Economic Affairs ), and had almost no representation at senior levels even of the Conservative Party.

It was the second time the Country Party had effectively vetoed its senior partner's choice for the leadership ; in 1923 Earle Page had demanded that the Nationalist Party, one of the forerunners of the Liberals, remove Billy Hughes as leader before he would even consider coalition talks.

The most senior leaders to support Mao in 1932 were Zhou Enlai, who had become disillusioned with the strategic leadership of other senior leaders in the Party, and Mao's old comrade, Zhu De.

A senior Chinese diplomat said that Chinese public opinion was running out of patience with the North's behavior, which influenced the leadership.

However, Shomaly goes onto state that there is no systematic recruitment and that senior representatives of the groups and the Palestinian community are against the recruitment of children as a political strategy, although in Shomaly's opinion the political leadership of the Palestinians could do more to discourage the use of children by paramilitaries by requesting that the leadership of the paramilitaries sign a memorandum forbidding the training and recruitment of children.