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On the recordSeptember 6, 2017
However, the Navy's proposal to grow to 355 ships would take decades to be realized, which means we have to make do with the size of the fleet that we have in the near term.
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Madeleine Bordallo
Democratic · Guam

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Bordallo discusses the long timeline for increasing Navy fleet size and current limitations.

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