Those 99 large Jones Act ships, they employ the majority of the mariners that I am going to need to man up those 61 Government sealift ships. Absent the Jones Act and the jobs that go with them, we are not taking those ships to war, we are not taking this country to war. It is as simple as that.
Randy Weber: “Those 99 large Jones Act ships, they employ the majority of the mariners that I am going to need to man up those 61…”
On the recordMarch 5, 2019
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Weber emphasizes the importance of the Jones Act for military readiness.
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