Donald J. Trump

We'll see helicopters loaded with Navy SEALs and special ops personnel maybe doing some rappelling.

It'll be an exhibition of all of the capabilities that we offer.

potentially even including rib boats that are the cornerstone of our vessel boarding search and seizure capabilities, and really just elucidate all the missions that we participate in and let the good people of the Tidewater area get to see this and celebrate it on behalf of our 250th birthday.

Sonny, Admiral, you know, we've had Navy SEALs, we've had submariners, we're going to have some Naval Air folks on later.

Still the bedrock of the Navy is surface warfare.

Walk us through, what is surface warfare?

Explain it to our audience.

Carrier strike groups, all of it, sir.

Great.

So fundamentally, in our Navy today, we have about 290 battle force ships, which include our 11 aircraft carriers, about 115 to 120 cruisers and destroyers, all gas turbine vessels that can stay on station a long time.

They're very capable.

They can have sensors that look into exo-atmospheric events, and they can track exo-atmospheric missiles coming and inbound.

They're extraordinarily capable.

The backbone of the fleet, though, requires them to be anywhere.

And each of these cruisers and destroyers – and then, of course, I didn't mention our submarines.

We've got about 70 submarines, either ballistic missile submarines and or fast attack submarines.

So we come in with a very viable force that –

You know, we're going to be able to demonstrate not just today, but we demonstrate every day.

Look no further than our net effect against Houthi rebels and things of that nature.

It was really a no-brainer.