Captain Jim Fennell

So we're going to need people, as the president said, and we're going to need smart to use our construction techniques

to the new 21st century like we see the Chinese doing.

We need to get on board with those kind of building tactics and techniques and procedures.

So there's a lot of work to be done.

I'm very excited.

This is exactly what I've been asking for.

I'm very, very happy.

It's an early Christmas present, but we need to make sure that we execute.

I think we have the engineers that can design these things and do them, but I think what needs to happen and what hasn't happened over the last 30 years with the littoral combat ship and the Zumwalt class and the failures with the Ford to get her out, it took over a decade, and the Constellation class, those failures are horrific.

And guess what?

Nobody paid a price for it.

So what the president and the secretary of the Navy need to say to these folks at NAVSEA and these other organizations inside the Navy, hey, you have to get this done.

And if you don't produce and if you start doing your typical cost overruns and adding on this and adding on that and trying to delay this, you're out.

We need people to produce and we don't need excuses anymore.

So it's time for people to perform inside the Navy architecture.

And if they don't perform, then they got to get rid of them.

Just like General Marshall got rid of the non-performers before World War II inside the Army.

It has to happen.

We can't just pass people along anymore.

It's not acceptable to take a kid and can't read and pass them on to high school out of grade school.