The House Appropriations defense subcommittee on Tuesday questioned several moves proposed by the Navy and Marine Corps in the fiscal year 2015 budget request that would shrink the size of the fleet even as the sea service rewrote its ship-counting rules to include several that were not counted as battle force ships before. Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.) was particularly vocal about changes to the fleet size, asking about the plan to take half the cruiser fleet out of the water…
