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  • Cole Skipper's Promotion Held Up In Senate

    08/28/2002 6:09:17 AM PDT · by robowombat · 13 replies · 264+ views
    Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ^ | August 28, 2002 | Dale Eisman
    Norfolk Virginian-Pilot August 28, 2002 Cole Skipper's Promotion Held Up In Senate By Dale Eisman, The Virginian-Pilot WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee has quietly informed the Navy that it will need extra time to review a recommendation that Cmdr. Kirk S. Lippold, skipper of the destroyer Cole when terrorists blew a hole in the side of the ship in October 2000, be promoted to captain. The review, instigated in part at the urging of Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va., continues a running debate in and out of the service over whether Lippold bears a share of responsibility for the deaths...