John Phelan: “In terms of number of ships, we need a lot more.”

“Because I think it's just central to the whole thing that the Navy, what you were trying to do, what people understand. Following issues are trying to understand, what would it be? … In terms of number of ships, we need a lot more. … We train people very poorly. Today we. You go to Groton, Connecticut, to electric boat where we build nuclear submarines. And they are still welding and building off blueprints. Blueprints.” (13:37–13:39)

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