The terrorist bomb attack on the destroyer Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, was a watershed moment in modern Navy history. It was also a wake-up call on the need for better force protection, damage-control training, intelligence sharing, shipboard equipment and mass-casualty response.
Significant leaps forward in those elements have been made in the past 10 years, officials say â?? some of the steps prompted by changes mandated in the Pentagonâ??s 2001 Cole Commission Report, others by debriefs and after-action reports.
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