When we begin to man ships with less people because it's always easy to take away people--that's money in your pocket right off the bat--or we put less ammunition in magazines or less spare parts in supply storerooms or we cut back on training, then you have a Navy that begins to become irrelevant and that's not a place where we want to be.
Garamendi warns against reducing Navy personnel and resources, which could compromise naval effectiveness.
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