The 12th Littoral Combat Team will receive the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, in fiscal 2026.
The captain bravely ushered about two dozen Marines to safety from the burning aircraft.
The service is also shipping more new recruits off to basic military training on a weekly basis than it did two years ago, officials said.
The president said the new effort will focus on ways to "resurrect the American shipbuilding industry."
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