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more sequester posturing?
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff testified Wednesday before McKeon’s committee, warning that military readiness will suffer from budget cuts and that long-term damage will result even if the sequester is reversed. The chiefs took some heat during the hearing for not saying more, earlier and louder, about the devastating impact of the cuts, but McKeon defended them. The chiefs, he said, had been ordered not to plan for sequester last year (PRECISELY) so they could not provide details. “By the time you become one of the chiefs, you know how to follow an order.” “It is not their job to hold press conferences and try to sway public opinion,” he said of the chiefs. . |
Originally Posted by UnderOveur
(Post 1353181)
There's only one place such orders could come from, and boy howdy that says a whole lot right there...no further comment necessary. :mad:
. ^^^^^ Agreed. |
The Air Force is preparing heavily for a sequester if it is not averted.
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I don't know. We go thorough this all the time. Its always funny how we happen to get the money at the last minute. It just makes me laugh how we are in these situations. We'll see what happens.
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I think it's gonna happen and then money will be added back to specific areas as the pain increases. It's just going to mess stuff up for a while.
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How much is getting cut from the defense budget this year? They're only cutting $1.2 trillion over 10 years. That isn't a lot.
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I think part of the problem is that all of the GWOT and Overseas Contingency funds now must come out of the services baseline budget, and those baseline budgets just got cut by the $1.2T over 10 years. And oh-by-the-way, the USAF isn't allowed to close any bases or retire any old airplanes.
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Originally Posted by Riddler
(Post 1355693)
I think part of the problem is that all of the GWOT and Overseas Contingency funds now must come out of the services baseline budget, and those baseline budgets just got cut by the $1.2T over 10 years. And oh-by-the-way, the USAF isn't allowed to close any bases or retire any old airplanes.
GWOT/OCO is winding down to low intensity and relatively lower costs, especially once we are out of AFG. The only wildcard is Iran...our readiness there has piggy-backed on the OCO assets in the AOR. |
Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
(Post 1355658)
How much is getting cut from the defense budget this year? They're only cutting $1.2 trillion over 10 years. That isn't a lot.
Now that's based purely on your number of "$1.2 trillion over 10 years." Not sure if that's accurate. |
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