U.S. garrisons in Europe flush with 2008 funding

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U.S. garrisons in Europe flush with 2008 funding
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, November 1, 2007

HEIDELBERG, Germany — If you’ve got the time, IMCOM-Europe has the money.

After a couple of lean years, the fiscal picture for U.S. garrisons in Europe is much brighter this fiscal year, officials say.

“You’re going to see more people in Army Community Services and with child care and youth programs,” said Russell Hall, director of Installation Management Command-Europe.

“We’ll have the opportunity to reduce rates and costs. You’ll start seeing a lot of scaffolding with new (construction) projects.”

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This year, the requests have been sought sooner. President Bush has asked for a record total of more than $196 billion in the supplemental war-fighting bill for fiscal 2008.

That’s in addition to the $507 billion the president wants for non-war military spending in 2008.


Rest of article at: http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=49952



uhc comment: Empire is expensive. Get used to it.

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