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My dad spent the first 12 years of his career working on the Advanced Gun System for the DDG1000 destroyer program. Never got used.

I can understand why he has such a disdain for government waste.

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The entire DDG1000 program was a boondoggle. An active-duty friend of mine who is well-connected in naval strategy circles keeps repeating that the Navy won’t pull its head out of its ass until a few large hulls end up at the bottom of the South China Sea.

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