We’ve got SEAL teams in the field that are very close to net zero in terms of energy and water, so they can stay out almost indefinitely without being resupplied. – Ray Mabus
Here are the choices I don’t want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes. – Ray Mabus
When I do all-hands calls – and I do a lot of all-hands calls – and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either. – Ray Mabus
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors. – Ray Mabus
