USS Milwaukee to be christened in Marinette -Navy's littoral ship program goes full speed ahead despite questions about performance, capability -By Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel

"There's a place for these ships ... just look at world events," said John Rogers, a former high-ranking Department of Defense official and now president of Capstone National Partners, a Milwaukee-based consulting firm. "We are no longer building fleets, for the most part, to line up and do major battle against other fleets. Obviously we reserve the right to do that, but we're also building vessels that can support operations in ways that 40 years ago we didn't even consider. That is where the action is." Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/tablet/business/uss-milwaukee-to-be-christened-in-marinette-b99165697z1-236304171.html#ixzz2nvfhZ5tr
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