[Mr. Lucky]

We should all agree with the Secretary. Having 11 carrier groups may not be appropriate to America's defense.

We should either reactivate the Iowa Class battleship groups or bring the number of carrier groups up to 15.

[henkster]

I recall we had 15 active carrier groups in the day of Reagan. Sounds good to me.

But we will really only need five. The Chinese won’t develop their own carrier battle groups. They will just buy the other six from us.