The coalition has been encouraged by comments from Navy Secretary Gordon England and Admiral Vernon Clark , the chief of naval operations , that they do not want to concentrate all their ships in a handful of bases , which seem to support keeping Groton open because it is the only Navy warship home port north of Virginia on the East Coast .
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East Coast