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(Delaware) Cash-short Guard's weekend drills canceled
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/delawaredefense/2014/09/02/delaware-army-national-guard-weekend-drill-canceled-not-enough-money/14977031/Cash-short Guard's weekend drills canceled
William H. McMichael, The News Journal 9:49 a.m. EDT September 3, 2014
The Delaware Army National Guard has canceled this weekend's monthly training drills due to a national budget shortfall, state Guard officials say.
The shortfall is the result of the National Guard Bureau, and as many as a dozen states, overspending their accounts by a total of more than $101 million, according to the state Guard.
Although state Guard officials says Delaware was not one of those, it is returning $450,000 - the amount it would have spent on September's weekend training.
Some other states also are canceling training and returning funding – if not in the same amounts – to "make up for the sins of others," said Maj. Gen. Frank Vavala, the state's top officer, who acknowledged he probably didn't have to do so. The Guard bureau asked states to give back, he said, so that the National Guard is not deficient.