Nat Guard budget pinch

[unhappycamper]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/aug/24/national-guard-budget-cuts/?st

Everything on table under sequestration, including merger Guard, Reserves

Nat Guard budget pinch
By Gretel C. Kovachnoon
Aug. 24, 2013

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Nationally, the Guard expects to lose about 15 percent of its budget in fiscal 2014. Last week the Army Chief of Staff directed all two-star headquarters and above to cut their budgets 25 percent.

The "very, very scary" developments are looming over the next five years, with the Army taking from a projected $18.6 billion annual budget cut to more than $78 billion under full sequestration - and we absolutely believe that will likely happen,” Beevers said.

"I don't think we can survive that. It's not going to be a pretty thing at all," he said. "The spending reductions are going to be so, so significant that we will be forced to do something, and it's going to be a huge challenge."

One option may be to consolidate the National Guard and Army Reserve and place them both under "Title 32" authority, answering to the governor in each state as well as the president, he said.



unhappycamper comment: Get over it.