Hundreds of exhibitors came to show their wares at the 2014 Sea Air Space expo near Washington, D.C., but none drew a crowd as much as Naval Supply Systems Command’s booth around lunchtime. Smiling attendees milled around with small plates of seared snapper and field greens prepared by Navy culinary specialists, getting a small taste of the Navy’s plans for meals underway. “What it does is, it cuts the edge off of all the technology that’s going around here,” Cmdr. Danny King, director of food service for NAVSUP, said of his booth. “So you’ve got all this great technology, millions…
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The sharpest exchange in the Oct. 22 presidential debate centered on the size of America’s Navy. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee and former Massachusetts governor, highlighted the shrinking size of the fleet, noting it was now the smallest it has been since World War I, a point he has brought up often on the stump. That brought a retort from his opponent. “You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916,” President Obama replied in the final debate, which focused on foreign policy and during which the president strove to paint his…
Earlier this week, the size of the fleet took center stage in the presidential campaign. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor widely regarded as the front-runner in the contest for the Republican nomination, raised the issue at Monday’s debate when he cited the fleet’s size as evidence that President Barack Obama is allowing the military to atrophy. “Our Navy is smaller than it’s been since 1917,” Romney said, going on to add: “We simply cannot continue to cut our Department of Defense budget if we are going to remain the hope of the Earth. And I will fight to make…
