He served as a flag lieutenant in a naval air unit in the Pacific, won an Air Medal and was discharged as a lieutenant commander in September 1945.
The largest vessel in the Amphibious Forces is the LSD (Landin Ship Dock) There is also an LCC (Landing Craft Control) a small vessel which serves as a flag ship in landing operations.
He served as a flag bearer in the 45th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion at Fort Bliss and while there he played with the Harlem Globetrotters on a part-time basis.
As well as digit flags, the code used "repeat" flags so that only one set of digits was needed; thus the word "do", coded as "220", used a "2" flag, a "first repeat" flag here serving as a second 2, and a "0" flag.
Mr. Osnos suggest that the flag incident might serve as a storm flag for both countries, and notes that "under slightly different circumstances, the United States might well find itself in the equivalent of a limo-flag situation".
A ritual that last month served as a red flag to China's critics may now be turned to much better use.
The fact that Dr. Maas evaluates his students by means of three multiple-choice exams a semester should serve as a red flag.
If you're looking for culprits, The Star-Ledger's Dave D'Alessandro suggests starting with Deron Williams, whose recent whining about Avery Johnson's offense should serve as a red flag about where this is headed.
As Mary Elizabeth Williams writes for Salon ("Melissa Harris-Perry Doesn't Want to Steal Your Children"), those seemingly innocuous words about investing in children served as a red flag to some observers, who read into the idea that we should invest more in public education an attack on the nuclear family and the role of parents.
These range from the aquatic ape theory, according to which tears were an adaptation to saltwater living, to the notion that by blurring our vision tears may serve as a "white flag" to potential aggressors – a signal that the crier is incapable of harm.
