In response, the station's operations chief called up a dense display of figures to the console's screen.

"Looks like a damned kindergarten around here," the operations chief snapped.

Delta was the call sign of his tactical operations chief.

"Superior," he asked, "are there any orders for the covert operations chief?"

He confessed he had done nothing that any other operations chief under the circumstances wouldn't have done.

In many respects they have worked as joint operations chiefs since 1995.

That was the sort of adjustment Dainyl had made routinely when he had been operations chief.

The different setting also provides "a nicer transition from the street," noted the operations chief.

"The fog of war," an operations chief for the federal emergency agency, Mike Brown, said.

"This was an issue considered thoroughly by the operations chief."