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President Trump praised the U.S. military Thursday as he visited the Marinette Marine Shipyard.
It was the first-ever visit by a sitting president to Menominee/Marinette area. He was in Marinette to officially launch a new five-point-five billion dollar Navy shipbuilding contract to construct up to ten guided-missile frigates. The initiative will create up to one-thousand jobs in the region.
The President said it’s part of his administration’s effort to restore the military. Trump said the ships will feature some of the most advanced air research and air search radar capabilities in naval history.
The FFGX is 30-times more powerful than the previous generation and will come equipped with a helicopter and unmanned drone. The President added the ship offers the overwhelming force America needs to fight its enemies.
There were between 600 and 700 people, mostly Marinette Marine workers, on hand at the event. There were also state, federal, and local officials, along with members of the military.
Earlier in the day, President Trump flew into Green Bay, Wis,, on Air Force One. He appeared at a Town Hall Meeting hosted by Fox News before a studio audience at an Austin Straubel Airport hangar , and then flew on Marine One to Menominee.
His motorcade brought him across the Interstate Bridge to the shipyard, where the president was given a tour by Marinette Marine officials before he delivered his remarks.
Fox News host Sean Hannity accompanied the president to Marinette Marine, and conducted an exclusive interview with the president while walking through the bowels of the shipyard. That interview was aired on national television later Thursday night.
(Photo courtesy of Jim Callow/Josh Kellner, Bay Cities Radio)
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