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SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

TODD SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

In the event of a national emergency, even at top speed this frigate would take at least eight days to travel from the

U.S. Gulf to San Francisco, via the Panama Canal. Consider the alternative if the Canal were impassable or not open to U.S. ships.

The logical solution to this possible dilemma is to provide for the construction of our future surface combatants, such as the new Arleigh Burke class (DDG 51) destroyer, in equal amounts on either side of the

Panama Canal. Geographical dispersion of U.S. shipyards, capable of building surface combatants, is essential to the nation's military preparedness and national defense.

A West Coast shipbuilding mobilization base utilizing our private shipyards, is in the best interest of our nation and the defense of the Pacific Basin, an area occupying in excess of 50% of the globe.

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