31.   In a district that has two Navy bases and a large retired military population, Ms. Cammermeyer hopes to score points with her military background.

32.   In addition to women and black voters, Robb is trying to attract swing Republicans with his military background.

33.   In the beginning, she said, he also suffered rejection from Cuban exiles who she said suspected him of being a spy because of his military background.

34.   Jiang is the first modern Chinese leader without a military background, and asserting his authority over the PLA is a risky gambit.

35.   McCain, a former Vietnam POW, used his military background to make his link to Bush.

36.   Often, they have come to the job with indifferent military backgrounds.

37.   Peres, with a civilian and not a military background, may simply have been overconfident that the claims of surgical accuracy by Israeli artillery and aircraft were true.

38.   Political analysts regard the selection of Diniz as an effort to defuse the scandal by appointing someone without a formal military background.

39.   Rep. Steve Huffman, a fellow freshman who sat next to Gordon, said he never doubted his military background.

40.   She is hiring fewer pilots with military backgrounds and sending more of them to be trained in the United States and Australia.