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John Phelan: “You should expect that's at least more than double [the…”

Featuring: John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy | National

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Morning Keynote: The Honorary John Phelan

Published | Video Starts at 58:30

So I can't talk a lot about the 27 budget. What I'll say is, if you look at the 26 budget, we had 17 or 19 ships in there. You should expect that's at least more than double [the number of ships] in the new budget. is what we're basically looking at. And there is a pretty big contingent of auxiliary and support ships. (58:30–58:35)

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