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MADem

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5. You're welcome to your opinion.

Reply to pangaia (Reply #4)

Sun Aug 17, 2014, 03:48 PM

Aug 2014

I think you might want to do a little homework, though.

We're many, many HUNDREDS of ships away from Ronald Reagan's dream of a six hundred ship Navy. In fact, our Navy is the smallest it has been in many, many years.

When your Navy is small, it needs to be high quality, fast, and reliable. That's what we're on about with these vessels, which require much less in terms of manpower than vessels of yore.

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The U.S. Navy’s Most Expensive Warships for 2014 [View all] unhappycamper Aug 2014 OP

Ships are like a good suit used to be in the old days... MADem Aug 2014 #1

This is sarcasm, right... pangaia Aug 2014 #2

Not at all. I'm entirely serious. MADem Aug 2014 #3

Too many ships. pangaia Aug 2014 #4

You're welcome to your opinion. MADem Aug 2014 #5

SMALL??? pangaia Aug 2014 #6

Yes, it most certainly is true that our Navy is larger than, say, Bolivia's. MADem Aug 2014 #7

MADem, I think we are on the same side here in general, or not, but.. pangaia Aug 2014 #8

I think you would miss the sea lanes of communication once they disappeared. MADem Aug 2014 #9