If we're going to have a forward deployed Navy, which I believe we should, if we're going to have a Navy which can respond to whatever crises or whatever events it needs to respond to, then we have an obligation to make sure that we get enough ships into this fleet.
Mabus stresses the importance of a sufficient naval fleet for crisis response.
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