Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25268421-20150223031428/@comment-139.194.123.202-20150223160230

In almost all large navies DDs are commanded by officers of Commander rank. Captains are stationed on capital ships over 9000 tons displacement such as modern Japanese and US DDGs, special purpose ships, cruisers (CLs and CAs in WW2) and large submarines (SSNs and SSBNs). Admirals command battlegroups centered on large capital ships over 12000 tons displacement such as missile cruisers (BCs and BBs in WW2), aircraft carriers, and LPDs. As such, a typical DD would very rarely get issued commands directly from admirals.

Note that smaller navies may have admirals commanding corvettes. This is called rank inflation, but unavoidable if all your ships are basically corvettes.

In the IJN, DDs in a Destroyer Division (DesDiv) were commanded by the Commander of the lead ship. So the DD girls call you shireikan instead of TTK.