Likewise the Air Force. The Air Force has been reduced to about 4,000 planes. We need to increase that to a minimum of 6,000 planes so that we can project power, and use our air power superiority.
The Navy: We've got 272 ships, the least we've had since 1917, literally a century ago was the last time we had a navy with this few ships. We need to increase that to a minimum of 350 ships.
And, we need an overall force level of 1.4 million troops at a minimum [up from the current level of 1.3 million active personnel].
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The above quotations are from CNN GOP Town Hall in South Carolina, Feb. 17-18, 2016 (on eve of South Carolina primary).
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