by Marsha Freeman
Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
-President George Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, Nov. 15, 1781
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, now threatened with closure by the Administration's Base Realignment and Closing program, is the oldest, still-operational naval shipyard in the United States, and the reservoir of some of the most skilled engineering and manufacturing manpower in New England
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