In What Order Do I Address More Than One Military Officer in a Salutation?

How should I address more than one Admiral in correspondence?  For example, I was going to write:
Dear Admirals Blue, Green, and Red (alphabetically)
I see on your website I should do it by seniority rather than alphabetically; Is that correct? Thank you.
— KW, PharmD, Drug Risk Management Analyst

Dear KW:
Yes, list their names in order by seniority.
Every officer knows his or her date of rank, as will their staff, so the information should not be hard to get.
– Robert Hickey www.formsofaddress.info

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