Ray Mabus: “The U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps have a long history and tradition of embracing innovation to gain a strategic and…”

It`s huge. It`s huge symbolically as you pointed out. This was the ship that threatened the Ukrainians on Snake Island and they told them to go do something you can`t say on TV.

As President George Washington said, it follows then as night succeeds the day that without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

American leaders across the political spectrum have understood the vital significance of sea power.

I would never, ever, ever do anything to lower the combat readiness or the reliability of the United States military.