The Navy vessels will be the first to bear the names of former presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush.
The Navy's plan for its future fleet would require $1 trillion and a drastic increase in productivity at the nation's shipyards.
This marks the fifth time a Navy vessel has donned the Intrepid name, and the first since 1974, when the carrier Intrepid was decommissioned.
Chandler, who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters on Dec. 7, 1941, is the third Pearl Harbor survivor to die in the past few weeks.
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