Thomas does not really do justice to Halsey's fine work in the South Pacific theater in 1943 where, in effect, he functioned as the head of what would now be called a joint and combined command, a job that demanded different qualities than those of a plain-spoken sea-chief.
And how we laughed late one afternoon when, after sixty days at sea, the chief medical corpsman showed up on deck sloppy drunk.
The population is distributed in about 10 villages, mostly at some distance from the sea; the chief town, Thásos (formerly Limín), is on the north coast.
"We would like to remind the Japanese government that the whales of the Southern Ocean are protected by international law, by Australian law and by Sea Shepherd," chief executive Alex Cornelissen said.
"What I always tried to get them to do," said James Beatty, a retired Navy commander and the former Navy Sea Forces chief in Cairo, "was tell me in the year 2020 what you want your military to look like, so we have a gradual, phased buy of using your money in an intelligent way instead of coming up every year with a new list".
"The pristine waters of the Southern Ocean are once again under threat from poachers," Sea Shepherd chief executive Alex Cornelissen said.
"We'll find out if there are additional shipments, possibly on the high seas," said Chief Philip C. Spinelli of the Waterfront Commission.
JAKARTA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet have located a fifth large object on the seabed, agency chief Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo told reporters on Sunday.
That rallies the crew, led by the usual gnarled chief sea dog (Mr. Keitel, acting unusually standard-issue).
