Defense officials again sound alarm on sequestration

[unhappycamper]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/defense-officials-again-sound-alarm-on-sequestration/2013/02/12/6c19f8ec-7554-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html



“The wolf is at the door,” Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned during testimony before the Senate Armed Service committee. Officials, from left, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Defense Undersecretary Robert Hale, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos and National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Frank Grass prepare for testimony to resume.

Defense officials again sound alarm on sequestration
By Steve Vogel, Published: February 12

Senior Defense Department officials warned Congress on Tuesday that the looming sequestration cuts represent a dire and unpre­cedented threat to the U.S. military, with the potential to harm everything from combat readiness at a time of dangerous international tensions to the Pentagon’s efforts to reduce military suicide.

“The wolf is at the door,” Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, appearing with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a morning hearing.

Automatic reductions set to kick in March 1 would force the Pentagon to cut $46 billion from its budget over the next seven months.

The automatic cuts, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned, could leave U.S. military ­forces “degraded and unready,” adding during questioning that “it would be immoral to use the force unless it’s well-trained, well-led and well-equipped.”



unhappycamper comment: And in old news (April 2012), the Air Force admits to blowing a billion dollars "on a logistics management system that had “negligible” capability." --> http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/11/fed-how-airforce-blew-one-billion-dud-112612w/

[Historic NY]

1. Hah....McConnell says sequestration is coming....

because Obama won't negotiate with Republicans on the bill they passed calling for it... Meanwhille the trillion dollar boondoggle continues with the F35, that seem more and more to be less on paper and more on expense.