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Tango0121 Oct 2014 10:37 p.m. PST

"They call it "haze gray," the war paint of the Navy's fleet, designed to make its vessels tougher to see.

It's hard to fathom how many millions of gallons of it have been slathered on the sides of Navy ships over the years.

"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't, paint it," was a motto of sailors in previous generations, said Rob Hogan, director of steel manufacturing at Newport News Shipbuilding and the son of one such sailor…"
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