So, you know, that would--that might solve the problem.

This is one of those things that everybody says we need, but nobody wants to put the money in.

The Coast Guard actually built the best LCS. It is called the NSC.

How big of a priority was that for the Coast Guard?

Do you think DoD is going to spring for that, then?

California is going to legalize coke----

But what I would like you to do right now is talk about it in terms of capability.

If we could sell that cocaine, we could----

But right now it is pie in the sky, really, talking about two, three, four----

The--once again, the only existing U.S.-made icebreaker in America.

The blended retirement is probably more important, I would guess, to the other services.

But your 5-year plan is short. Meaning, you don't have enough funds for your 5-year plan, let alone your 20-year plan.

I would offer, too, that the Coast Guard's shipbuilding hasn't been stellar.

At what point do you realize that you have to plan for real life, as opposed to planning for non-real life?

there is no national security, national defense requirement for an icebreaker.

there is no requirement in any operational plan anywhere in the world for an icebreaker.

I don't understand why people don't see it that way.

When will you have your requirements to give the subcommittee, what you have whittled it down to?