Reply #8: It was actually under SecDef Dick Cheney [View All]

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that the budget cuts were proposed. From the Defense Department's own website:

Over Cheney's four years as secretary of defense, encompassing budgets for fiscal years 1990-93, DoD's total obligational authority in current dollars declined from $291.3 billion to $269.9 billion. Except for FY 1991, when the TOA budget increased by 1.7 percent, the Cheney budgets showed negative real growth: -2.9 percent in 1990, -9.8 percent in 1992, and -8.1 percent in 1993. During this same period total military personnel declined by 19.4 percent, from 2.202 million in FY 1989 to 1.776 million in FY 1993. The Army took the largest cut, from 770,000 to 572,000-25.8 percent of its strength. The Air Force declined by 22.3 percent, the Navy by 14 percent, and the Marines by 9.7 percent.

Link is http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/cheney.htm

So anytime one of these "support the troops" types starts talking about how the liberals gutted the military, just direct them to the site listed and it usually gets them good and confused. It's kinda humorous to watch!