Navy Wins Big As Senate Approps Adds $4.2B To Keep Nine Ships, Add Destroyer, Fund Attack Sub

Those nine warships the Navy planned to retire in the face of the budget crunch? Fuggedaboutit. They're back in, if the Senate Appropriations Committee has anything to say about it.

The Army wants to keep working on tanks? Cool. We got their back.

Helicopters flew the guys who killed Osama bin Laden and have gotten beaten up flying in Afghanistan and Iraq? We're on it with $700 million to "modernize, replace combat losses, or procure new helicopters.

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