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Conway: Amphibious Ships Lose In Pentagon Review

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Friday, January 15th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps' top officer expressed concern yesterday about future plans for amphibious ships spelled out in the not-yet-unveiled Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) report. Though he did not reveal the QDR's conclusion about the size of the amphibious fleet, Commandant Gen. James Conway told the Surface Navy Association Symposium that "in every case analysis the most stressed capability in the U.S. military were amphib ships." "The problem is with declining budgets we've got a SCN (Shipbuilding and…

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