more sequester posturing?
02-15-2013 | 07:25 AM
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02-15-2013 | 07:38 AM
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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.
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.
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02-19-2013 | 03:55 AM
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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.
02-19-2013 | 08:09 AM
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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.
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.
02-19-2013 | 08:40 AM
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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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