Word: fleetly
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Whether the Navy will receive enough money to maintain its 13 carriers and expand the fleet to the nearly 600 ships that Holloway feels will be needed at the end of the century is a question that will be heatedly debated by Congress in the weeks ahead. To reach the Navy's goal would require spending about $5 billion extra annually. Even bringing the fleet up to the more modest level of 500 ships, which the Administration believes should be sufficient, would cost about $500 million a year more than Carter has requested...
...Capitol Hill to defend their budget proposals. The continuing debate about the Navy is sure to become increasingly open, perhaps even reminiscent of the revolt of the admirals. Ultimately, therefore, it may be the public that will determine the Navy's role and the fate of the surface fleet...
...were fighting for its life. In a sense it may be, for the eventual resolution of this bitter dispute could determine not only what the U.S. Navy will look like as the nation steams into the 21st century, but whether there will be much of a surface fleet...
...since the end of World War II. They are: ? Projecting power abroad. This primarily means using the warplanes and Marine Corps detachments aboard aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to help repel any Soviet attack against the relatively poorly defended flanks of NATO. The Sixth Fleet's two carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike...
...think that a balanced, 600-ship fleet, with 14 or 15 battle groups, would give us substantial assurance of being able to carry out our strategy with confidence of victory. With a twelve-carrier force [in a 525-ship fleet], it is worrisome." And a fleet smaller than this, according to some admirals, could mean a tacit wartime "abandonment" of some key allies, including Japan, Norway, Greece and Turkey. Declared Navy Secretary Claytor in a confidential memo to Defense Secretary Brown: A reduced fleet would "concede the Norwegian Sea 9 to the Soviets" and restrict us to "the defense...