1.   A veteran of the Navy officer corps.

2.   But a higher-ranking Navy officer overruled the recommendations, sending the officer to an administrative hearing offering no possibility of jail.

3.   Daniels faces charges of impersonating a Navy officer.

4.   Although quietly backed by some senior Navy officers, this was an exceptionally delicate operation to subvert White House and Pentagon policy.

5.   Another senior Navy officer cautioned that the accusations were still under review and that no one had been charged yet.

6.   As a Navy officer, he created a cartoon character named Dilbert, a blunderer who violated rules of military safety.

7.   As a Navy officer, he shuffled around the country in three-year assignments, with little time to put down roots, let alone build them himself.

8.   As reported in Current Biography, his first ambition was to become a Navy officer, but his alternate appointment to Annapolis never worked out.

9.   As vital as this operation is to the Navy, not one of the Navoceano ships has a Navy officer or enlisted man on board.

10.   A lucky few have worked with Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and former Navy officer who uses military gear to hunt deep wrecks.