The Navy today unveiled a fiscal year 2009 budget proposal that requests funding for seven new ships -- instead of the 11 previously planned -- because of cuts to the Littoral Combat Ship program, while also scaling back plans for the Navy's troubled VH-71 presidential helicopter. The FY-09 spending request for the Navy and Marine Corps -- which will be vetted and changed by Congress in the coming months before being sent back to the White House for final approval...
