Captain Jim Fennell

And when people say we can't, then identify what the can't is and then find the fix to that can't.

So we need a lot of can-do people inside the system.

And it's going to be hard, no question.

And we have tried in the past, but at least under the first Trump administration.

This time, I think it's a different agenda now because it's very, very clear that the Chinese Navy is the existential threat to America's national security.

And we need to have this fleet.

And it sounded like from what I heard from the SECNAP, he has the agenda of things that they haven't just come up with this on a cocktail napkin, back of the napkin over the weekend.

This is something they've been thinking about for a year.

And, you know, just like the thing with the command ships.

We have numbered fleets, as you know.

The Seventh Fleet is out in Japan.

The Sixth Fleet is in Europe in the Mediterranean.

We have the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

We have Fourth Fleet down in the

in the Latin America area with the new commander just announced.

But all of our numbered fleets used to be afloat when I joined the Navy.

Today, the only really afloat numbered fleet is seven.

Now six, the guys in the med will get upset.

The six sometimes goes to sea, but really only the one fleet that was afloat was the seventh fleet, but it's on the oldest ship in the Navy.

The USS Blue Ridge is over 50 years old.