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Aviator, now at the Saguar Institute writing at the National Review online about the military industrial complex that no longer is straightforward enough to provide security for the supply lines to the fleet, to the Air Force, to the ground forces, Marines and Army, and to our allies.

Right now, the Eastern Mediterranean is patrolled by a carrier strike group led by the Ford.

The Red Sea Arabian Peninsula is patrolled by the Eisenhower carrier strike group and by Arly Burke

Destroyers and their capabilities of defending Israel and themselves and shipping.

That's what's happening right now.

That is the fleet in action.

We need much more of that fleet.

And how do you get that fleet?

How do you put it together quickly? You begin, just like you say with the

tree, the time to do it is yesterday. Jerry, I start with a fact that I gained

recently about welding, welders.

Lancaster County, one of the lucky counties of Pennsylvania,

has a trade school named for Thaddeus Stevens,

the Great Civil War representative in the House of

House in Congress.

That is, Stevens, is a trade school.

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