For the time being, forget military protocol, if you can; I'm going to call you Esmay, and you're going to call me Fred, because we have too much work to let formalities slow us down.

Instead of the current "send and forget" one-step protocol, channel e-mail is multistep:

"This is Dr. Leonard McCoy calling from the U.s.s. Recovery, and if I've forgotten formal protocol it's because I'm retired."

Pack-Commander, are you forgetting protocol?

"Zarth, are you forgetting protocol?"

Robert burst out, completely forgetting military protocol.

We have not forgotten protocol, we drill it every week!

Your Majesty," the colonel bawled, "we have not forgotten protocol.

I forgot protocol and stared directly at the Primate.

He could have been angry at her for forgetting protocol, but, when even his wife called him "your Majesty," he rather relished being treated like a mere human being.