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The Navy’s Very Expensive Mistake

The Daily

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The Department of Defense Decides It's Going to Kill Off the Littoral Combat Ship

Eric Liu: There's an immediate mobilization starting in Jacksonville, Florida where there are several thousand people that work to operate and maintain these ships. He says one of the key players in this is a guy who heads up a trade association in Jacksonville that represents all of the ship repair yards. Liu: Congress has the power through budget bills to block the retirement of an airplane or a ship by simply saying to the Air Force or the Navy, you can't spend even a dollar to retire it.

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