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[fairfaxvadem]

And, we need to keep the technology up to date, so building the occassional one or two new carriers will contribute to that immensely and permit us to retire any if necessary.

The real problem is that the US govt has been leasing some naval ships from other countries, and are considering extending those leases. They were only supposed to be short-term. This is really not good because we then rely on others for our "national security", we lose high-tech, high-skilled jobs at our few shipyards along with the knowledge, and back to the high tech issue, we end up falling behind by not building our own ships. If there is a need for these ships in the fleet, then we need to build them here and not borrow them.

Sorry, off my soapbox now.