DoD Buzz: Freeze DoD Dough For Five Years

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
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Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: There's some some serious cuts being talked about here:

• the $243 million dollar F-35
  
• the $100 million dollar MV-22
  
• the $5 billion dollar Virginia-class submarine
  

Of course they are going to build another $355 million dollar F-22. :(



Freeze DoD Dough For Five Years
By Colin Clark Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 11:31 am

]b\The panel, led by former Sen. Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and Alice Rivlin, OMB director under President Clinton, recommends killing or deferring the F-35, V-22, Virginia subs and ballistic missile defense. (Rivlin is also a member of the presidential task force on deficit reduction.) Those cuts would bring defense spending down to levels last seen during the Clinton presidency of around 3 percent of GDP. The panel argues that these cuts would still leave the United States the most powerful military in the world, one able to deploy and fight globally.