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You know, without maritime lift capacity, my sons that are all in the Army are going to be kind of hard-pressed just because you can't put a Paladin or an Abrams--you can't carry very many on an aircraft.

Eliminating the ability to rapidly mobilize, train, and deploy... increases risk at an unacceptable rate.

At some point in time I think we have to start making decisions about where we fight because what we don't want to do is break the Marine Corps or the Army for that matter.

This is a decision that essentially takes the 'air' out of 'airborne.'