31.   They credited the outcome to the aggressive presentation made by Adm. Jeremy Boorda, chief of naval operations, during a base visit by the commission earlier this month.

32.   We are shown the stripped land and the barren oceans, made this way after decades of endless bombings during United States naval training operations.

33.   Pilling will become a deputy chief of naval operations in Washington, D.C.

34.   As previously reported, Adm. Vern Clark, the chief of naval operations, has concluded that no one aboard the Cole should be disciplined.

35.   Bhagwat was replaced by Vice-Admiral Sushil Kumar, who previously was in charge of naval operations in south India.

36.   From there it will go for a final judgment to Adm. Vern Clark, chief of naval operations at Navy headquarters in the Pentagon.

37.   If confirmed by the Senate, Clark would replace Adm. Jay Johnson as chief of naval operations, the highest post in the Navy.

38.   Increased funding needed to come from Congress and through streamlining existing naval operations, he said.

39.   It also has warplanes in Kuwait, naval operations in Bahrain and more than a dozen warships in the Gulf.

40.   It followed the recommendation of Adm. Vern Clark, the chief of naval operations, that no one aboard the Cole should be disciplined.