Before Huge Sea Wargame, Navy and Marines Cheer Gridiron …

This places the Combatant Commander demand of 18 ships well above the average of 9.2 ships the Navy was able to provide for deployment from 2007 to 2010. Even more disconcerting, despite the Obama administration’s emphasis on the Asia-Pacific theater and naval forces in its new Strategic Guidance, it now plans to cut two older LSD-41 class ... ................
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