1.   Navy commanders recommended that he be tried by court-martial.

2.   Among those being questioned are Mahmood, nuclear engineer Abdul Majeed, industrialists Mirza Yusuf Baig and S.M. Tufail, and retired navy commander Arshad Chaudhry.

3.   Becton, then a Navy commander, escaped injury.

4.   Damaso Serrano, the mayor of Vieques, said he planned to present Navy commanders with a letter on Monday asking them not to proceed with any exercises.

5.   He faced a challenge from John L. Byron, a former Navy submarine commander.

6.   He is a former Navy commander.

7.   He raised three sons, one of them a Navy commander, and has two grandchildren.

8.   In a disturbing coda to the Dakar saga, a former navy commander, Adm. Michael Barkai, killed himself hours after hearing that the submarine had been located.

9.   Kimmel, the Navy commander at Pearl Harbor, and Short, the Army chief, were removed from their commands and sent into retirement.

10.   Kuroyedov, the navy commander, said the first examination of the hull of Kursk showed portions of deck housing torn away.