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In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 photo, a shipyard worker walks to his car at the end of the workday at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. With Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet potential threats from Russia and China.
In this Dec. 19, 2016 file photo, Lorry Fleming, center, of Bath, Maine, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, shouts at Donald Trump supporter Tom Thompson, left, of Topsham, Maine, outside the State House in Augusta, Maine, where the electoral college was meeting to elect the president. The split of Maine's presidential electoral votes for the first time was among the state's top stories in 2016.
In this Oct. 31, 2015 file photo, Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, attends the christening ceremony for the USS Raphael Peralta in Bath, Maine. Poliquin, who's made fiscal responsibility a hallmark of his campaigns, has been late on paying property taxes for his personal properties and his real estate company numerous times.
A 2005 Emma Willard School graduate and New Britain, Connecticut native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided missile destroyer, USS Rafael Peralta. is a hosptial corpsman aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer operating out of Bath, Maine.
The 610-foot, 15,000 ton USS Michael Monsoor is the U.S. Navy's second Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer. Standing before a crowd of nearly 2,000 in Bath, Maine, Sally Monsoor, the mother of fallen Navy SEAL Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor, honored her son Saturday by christening the ship that will bear his name.