Ray Mabus: “For every 50 convoys of gasoline we bring in, we lose a Marine, we lose a Marine killed or wounded. That is too high a…”

The changes that we have made in terms of how you treat shipmates with respect, how an attack such as sexual assault is an attack.

I want to thank this committee for all that you have done to ensure that the Navy and Marine Corps remain the preeminent fighting force in the world.

It is important for us to stay on top of that because some of the counterfeit parts that we have detected that Crane found earlier were critical parts in our submarines.

The civilian workforce writ large, we would not have a fleet to put to sea without those civilians.