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To: Willie Green
I believe that Rummy is excessively infatuated with high-tech bells and whistles and ignores the KISS principle.

Please provide examples, beginning after the Crusader which he killed, and the Osprey which he has been trying to kill.

Be specific.

22 posted on 12/09/2002 9:18:42 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
Please provide examples, beginning after the Crusader which he killed, and the Osprey which he has been trying to kill.

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THE DEFENSE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIAL BASE --
AN INDUSTRY AT RISK

MAY 2001 -- INTRODUCTION

In 1987, the United States had a naval fleet of 594 ships. Today, the fleet numbers 316 and is dropping. The annual numbers of naval ships procured is at the lowest level since 1932; the size of the Navy's fleet is the smallest since the year before we entered World War I; and while the fleet has been cut almost in half, the number of overseas deployments has increased 300 percent.

Our Commanders-in-Chief are on record that they cannot meet the Nation's military and foreign policy strategy with a fleet of less than 360 ships, yet Navy budgets are providing for a fleet of fewer than 200 ships. This disconnect between national requirements and budgets increases the risk of instability in many regions of the world, jeopardizes the lives of Americans, jeopardizes our economic prosperity, and threatens our peace and national security.


27 posted on 12/09/2002 9:36:18 PM PST by Willie Green
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