NFOF-01 Flag Officer

Academic Proficiency, Academy graduation are graded on a numerical scale, as well as other performance indicators to select the best officers to promote to flag rank.

There must be a flag-post to occupy, either from constituting a new unit, or replacing a demoted, retiring, going-to-reserve or otherwise inactivated officer.

The flag officer two-to-three posts higher makes the decision, on advice of his chief of staff(so no officer below OF-05 can make such an assignment, and it usually devolves to an OF-06 or more). Flag officers in the of-09, of-10 range are personally picked by ME-30 Meihomei, on advice of her interservice chief of staff, the OR-10 Telbun, as well as the service's head of the staffing service(nessun-opm for the navy, Consigliere-PPP for the army, Eagle-PPPP for Flyforce, etc...) Such a thing is highlighted in pomp in circumstance, at the palace, with a second, more private ceremony, at the headquarters of the armed service in question or a nearby building(Megamisama Drydock Plaza Complex #2's Kannie's is infamous for the raucous party welcoming new Nessuns)