Ray Mabus: “As the ice melts in the Arctic, our responsibilities clearly are going up.”

the President said repeatedly that he would veto a budget that locked in sequestration level funding.

The commitment to the rebalance is real. It is absolute.

If we don't get an American-made, more stably-based source of fuel, if we don't get some competition into the fuel, we're looking at fewer soldiers, fewer sailors, fewer platforms.

The effects of sequestration, should it continue past 2016, would be serious in the extreme to both the Navy and the Marine Corps.