
The leaders of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces both support the U.S. Navy’s assessment of increasing the fleet to 355 ships but recognize a decades-long and difficult path to convincing fellow members of Congress, they said Tuesday.Chairman Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and Ranking Member Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) both agreed with the Navy’s assessment to grow the fleet to 355 ships but are cognizant of the budgetary, congressional, and time factors in moving to that large of…