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3. And, by mid-August 2014 our Supercarriers will fit through the expanded Panama Canal

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2012, 08:19 PM

Jan 2012

locks, so transit from our east coast Navy ports to Subic Bay can happen quickly if necessary.

Plus I know from experience that sailors always like liberty call in Subic, which would boost the economy, in unseemly ways some might say.

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