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INSIGHTS plays in deploying and sustaining our forces. That goes for the products in their daily lives travelled on a vessel during both our land armies and our deployed naval forces. I tell some part of its journey into their hands is totally lost on people all the time that our powerful, centerpiece Aircraft most. Unfortunately, it has been that way for a long time.

Carrier Strike Groups only operate for a limited time at It will be a big challenge to transmit that coherent mes- full-tilt before they must be replenished, and MSC and the sage; I’ll have to work on it.

commercial ? eet will carry those supplies forward. And in

You’ve been in place as the Administrator for about all likelihood, those commercial ships will be operating in two months now. What’s your view of the business, the a contested environment, meaning the bad-guys will be domestic waterfront? Give me a SITREP if you would hunting them. It won’t be a cruise in the sunshine. Some from the Maritime Administrator’s seat.

won’t make it. I need to help mariners understand that it

In general terms, I’d say the U.S. Flag ? eet – Jones Act will be different if we get into a serious dustup.

and ocean carriers – is in steady state at the moment. By that I mean that we haven’t lost any more capacity lately,

You served as Commander Military Sealift Command though some of the Jones Act tonnage is in layup. As I from October 2009 to May 2013. MSC – an employer write this, we have 81 internationally trading ocean vessels where I started my career, coincidentally – employs and about 99 larger-sized Jones Act vessels – many, espe- as many civilian mariners as any other domestic US

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