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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Bordallo discusses the long timeline for increasing Navy fleet size and current limitations.
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Thank you very much. And, Mr. Chairman, I want to say thank you. This has been a very informative hearing.
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