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Fewer Ships At Sea, Fewer Missions, Less Training: CNO’s Sequestration Damage...
PENTAGON: The Navy has 10 fewer ships worldwide compared to just a few months ago. It has no warships at all off South America to help combat the drug trade. And training cutbacks will force many units...
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Will Sequester Scuttle Navy’s Surface Ship Comeback?
CAPITOL HILL: Just when the Navy’s surface fleet had started pulling itself out of a 10-year, $2 billion hole, budget dysfunction may kick it right back in. We’ve written a great deal about the damage...
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Hagel’s Strategic Review Falls Short; Make Hard Choices Now
When you add up the defense budget shortfalls for the next few years, it quickly becomes clear Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s recent Strategic Choices and Management Review (SCMR) looks to become just...
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Navy To HASC: We’re About To Sign Sub Deals We Can’t Pay For
CAPITOL HILL: The United States Navy is negotiating to buy 10 nuclear submarines that it probably can’t pay for. But the service is going ahead regardless, counting on the Pentagon and Congress to make...
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Pentagon Memos Detail Government Shutdown Plans
How will the Defense Department handle the all-but-inevitable government shutdown on October 1st? In a few minutes, Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale will lay out the answers for the media — and for...
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AUSA, Biggest Defense Conference, Thrives Despite Shutdown, Sequester & CR
[UPDATED 2:15 pm]WASHINGTON: Between sequestration, shutdown, and the Continuing Resolution, it’s been a brutal year for the federal government, especially the Army. Alongside training, maintenance,...
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Sequestration Cuts Leave Army With Only 2 Brigades Ready To Fight: CSA Odierno
UPDATE: Odierno Clarifies. It May Be Three Brigades WASHINGTON: The Army has had to cancel so much training that only two of its 42 combat brigades are ready for combat, Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno...
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Why America Got The Sequester It Deserves
Generals, admirals, members of Congress, captains of industry, and two Defense Secretaries in a row have been pounding the drums for nearly two years on the dangers of sequestration. So far, it appears...
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Army Budget Boss: Threats, Uncertainty Reign
ARLINGTON: No one knows what the 2016 budget is really going to be. In fact, no one can even plan properly for what it might be, the highest-ranking budgeteer in Army uniform made clear this morning....
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Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype
Bob Hale regularly demonstrated his better qualities during testimony before Congress, delivering highly complex facts and judgments about the Defense Department’s spending and budgets to the public...
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Army Up, Navy Down, & Pakistan Makes Us Pay In 2013 Reprogramming Request
What’s a few billion between friends? You can download the details below – more than 100 pages of them – but here are the bottom lines of the 2013 reprogramming requests the Pentagon has submitted to...
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Sequester Means $1 Billion More Of Cocaine Floods Into US: Coast Guard
[Corrected drug submersible range] WASHINGTON: The automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration will reduce the Coast Guard and Navy forces available to intercept South American...
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HASC Finds $5 Billion Fix For Sequester Damage, But It Won’t Matter
CAPITOL HILL: Like water rushing downhill, flowing over or around or through every obstacle in its path, money in Washington will find a way. Today’s example is the newly released House Armed Services...
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Hagel, Dempsey Beg Appropriators For Sequestration Wiggle Room
CAPITOL HILL: Even amidst the furor over sexual assault and NSA leaker Edward Snowden, the budget cuts known as the sequester dominated this morning’s discussion before the Senate Appropriations...
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Grounded Air Force Jets Take Off Again – But Training Budget Still Up In The Air
Today, the US Air Force announced that squadrons grounded since April, from combat units to the famous Thunderbirds, had the funding to fly again – for now. Congress had given the service permission to...
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