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On the recordMarch 28, 2012
Some up here like to argue that we have the smallest Navy since WWI. In reality we now have highly trained, all-volunteer crews that operate the most technologically advanced ships in the world.
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman defends the Navy's current size and capability against claims of reduction.

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