(Military.com) The Army would shrink to 380,000 troops, the Marines Corps to 150,000. The Navy would lose three carriers, and the Air Force would begin mothballing its B-52 bomber fleet under a worst-case budget scenario outlined Wednesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.Just as Russia and China do the opposite.
That's about where the US was in 1939 as far as troop strength. Brilliant strategy. After all, it's a much more peaceful world and we've apologized sufficiently so that al Qaeda is now on the run.
And because Obama, as he keeps telling us, cares for the military,
In addition, Tricare fees would go up, housing allowances would be slashed, pay raises would be scaled back, and commissary subsidies would be reduced, Hagel said -- unless Congress and the White House can agree to lift the sequestration deficit-reduction process that is projected to take $500 billion out of defense budgets over the next 10 years.
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