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  • The Vice-Admiral is the best thing to happen to LA since sliced bread.

    Mayoral "Control"? 2006

  • It was there that I went this week to celebrate the consecration of a plaque in memory of Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who captained HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous five-year voyage round the world in the 1830s and was an eminent meteorologist who pioneered what he called – and what everybody still calls – the "weather forecast".

    Terry Pratchett's case for assisted suicide is strong 2011

  • Former Vice-Admiral and Congressman Joe Sestak should be the next Senator from PA. he has all the bonfides required: current member of House, strong on national defense,, strong on supporting veterans, strong on health care reform. an intelligent, honest, thoughtful family man.

    Poll: Pennsylvania's fall Senate race all tied up 2009

  • Claims Lower Rear Admiral age 44 or less, in grade ~3 years promoted to Upper Rear Admiral age 45 while on orders to lay low and due for promo to Vice-Admiral after 1 1/2 years in grade at Lower

    JOHN SACROSANTE aka JOHN HAYDEN aka STEVEN 2010

  • It was there that I went this week to celebrate the consecration of a plaque in memory of Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who captained HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous five-year voyage round the world in the 1830s and was an eminent meteorologist who pioneered what he called – and what everybody still calls – the "weather forecast".

    Terry Pratchett's case for assisted suicide is strong 2011

  • Churchill had set up a meeting between the Force commander, diminutive Vice-Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, and South African premier Jan Smuts, and the former was airborne, en route to Pretoria.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • As his friend Vice-Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue wrote in the same month, ‘it would be impossible…for Japan to defeat America and bring about its capitulation’.3 America had the military capacity to wipe out all the Japanese forces in the field, and to occupy all of Japan, including the capital.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • The route had been set to keep the enemy guessing until the last possible moment, but Vice-Admiral Ozawa, the man responsible for the fleet and its 27,000 passengers, had not given up hope that his fleet could reach its destinations without being seen at all.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • After all, he had been personally decorated for heroic service by none other than Vice-Admiral John McCain.

    Requiem for Bill, why May Day will never be the same 2009

  • The Admiral, the Vice-Admiral of the Navy made it clear he wanted that cooperation to be enhanced.

    Interview - Fran Kelly, Breakfast, Radio National 2009

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