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Submitting
Flag Officer Biographies
A new, one-stop e-mail address has been created to better serve the flag officer
community. Updated flag officer biographies may be sent to Biographies.
Flag writers, etc., are encouraged to review the Flag Officer Biographies
page on the Navy's official Web site to ensure currency and accuracy.
Submissions should be in a plain Word or plain text file
(i.e. - no embedded symbols, graphics, or pictures). Portraits should be submitted
as a separate .JPG file, a minimum of 5x7 at 300 dpi. Do not submit
a new photo if it is the same as that already posted. Uncovered Portraits are preferred.
Please note that the Privacy Act and current Navy and DoD regulations prohibit
the inclusion of family member information, and place and date of birth, in
biographies posted to a publicly accessible Web site. Also, since the advent
of word processing with different type styles available, it is requested that
ship names be written in regular sentence case (i.e. - USS Dwight D. Eisenhower)
vice in upper case (i.e. - USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER). In the process of coding,
we will italicize the ship names.
Names of operations, numbered fleets, and groups should be written as follows:
Operation Iraqi Freedom, U.S. 6th Fleet, or Fleet Hospital 5.
Please know that only landlubbers refer to serving on a
ship. One serves aboard a ship but more preferably in a ship.
And a ship should be referred to in the third person as "she" rather
than "it."
We follow the Associated Press Style Guide for abbreviations in rank and
for states. For example, Maryland is not MD but is Md. while California would be Calif. - we also abbreviate
the states rather than spell it out. The word Admiral is always Adm. except
for the first mention or in a title such as the Admiral Jones
Award.
We do not distinguish between 0-7 and 0-8. The portrait will show if the
flag officer is a one or two star. We do also post bios for those who have
been selected for flag rank and note them as Rear Admiral (Select) for first reference then Rear Adm. (Sel) for rest of biography.