How owning and building vessels is great. We need to do more of that. Yes, no question. But we also need to explore alternatives, especially when talking about our fiscal picture. Leasing vessels has long been a practice, various nations, various navies, throughout centuries. So changing how we treat the fiscal structure of our dollars is important because right now, if we leased something, there's no benefit to leasing because the Congressional Budget Office … (31:17–31:26)
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