Saturday, August 27, 2011

Pentagon Mulling Ways To Make Significant Cuts In The Budget

Pentagon Mulls Ways To Make Significant Cuts -- Washington Times

The Pentagon is considering a range of options to meet a bipartisan call to greatly reduce defense spending in what is a “perfect storm” rocking the military’s once-plump budget plans.

The Army is looking at taking down combat brigades and ending some targeting and communications systems, and the Navy might delay ship construction and shed sailors.

And the purchase of the most expensive weapon system ever, the $380 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, could be pared from a planned 2,443 stealth jets.

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My Comment: This is already becoming a mess .... and one that will cause even more problems when the White House/Congress start to arbitrarily cut the budget .... which I am 100% sure and confident that they will do.

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