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    Report: Navy at risk of losing up to 2 carriers

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New records in the US navy that it's losing in danger of losing one or more of its crucial aircraft carriers.

The reason these pending military budget cuts in Washington.

Right now -- -- operating with eleven active flat -- -- each travel with a strike group that.

Normally includes five other ships along with a submarine.

Ships also carry more than eighty aircraft 7500.

Sailors call it home.

Cutting one of those groups may save billions of dollars but at what cost and national security.

If you McFarland at Fox News national security analysts and -- good morning to you.

And -- are risky is this do you believe for national security.

It's risky you know I worked -- the Reagan administration -- 600 ship navy were now down to less than half bad.

And if they are kind of products -- carrier strike group even significantly less than that.

And the problem is that even our ships have gotten more capable the ocean hasn't gotten any smaller.

And so when President Obama comes out and says look we're going to do more with blasts the reality -- do less with -- while we're.

And it went as you're -- about -- your -- then what what do you think the decision will be kicked me.

Well he's happy editing to Asia right what does that mean what is probably smaller army smaller Marine Corps.

More aircraft more ships or not -- more ships.

And what he's talking about doing a one war strategy what does that mean.

-- that means that we could be involved in the Persian golf keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and the world's oil supply flowing but we wouldn't be able to -- at the same time.

Pivot to Asia and keep up when the Asian sea lanes of communication through which the majority of the world trade -- You know in an era of today even more than when I was in the Reagan administration.

Today we relied on global shipping and we rely on the ability.

To move oil at all good spicy and -- the United States steps back from that role.

Which we have had since the end of World War II who's gonna keep all the embassy -- of communication.

That -- is.

The Russians.

You know they are Iranian navy none of those well where -- your world -- -- That your former boss said peace through strength and that that that's how he.

He governed for eight years and you believe did you start chipping away at it now it just leads to more down the -- down the road in the future explain that.

Yeah and don't you know you're so Smart to point out Reagan's strategy -- peace through strength most people think that's a throwaway line.

It's not what it means -- we don't wanna fight a war we want to make sure that we're strong enough so that nobody -- pick a fight with us.

That's the whole reason you have on a naval presence think about it this way.

-- thinking about robbing a convenience store trying to rob a convenience store there's a cop on the beat right in front of it.

So go someplace else that's why we need to have a cop on the beat in front of all the convenience stores right.

In this -- about what the navy does by having a naval presence.

They can span -- seven -- what president Obama's gonna do cutting back one carrier strike group maybe even -- That's -- really really seriously and -- ability to do what were.

Watch this story too because Virginia is home base to a lot of the US navy and there are thirteen electoral votes in that state and an election has Wednesday -- your -- -- for votes anyway everywhere he won and for the first time as a Democrat.

Since 1964.

Winning it again and 2012.

Would be remarkable if not difficult to KT thank you.

KT McFarland thanks that are.

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