Here’s the lead from the Washington Times-
Full article HERE.
What many may not understand is what the terms operations and maintenance really mean in a military context…
Operations includes those little things, like buying gas, oil, etc…
Maintenance funds are those base dollars that allow the services to perform their normal functions, like maintaining the equipment when it breaks, performing preventive maintenance inspections e.g. 90 and 210 day inspections on acft, inspecting/replacing safety/survival gear (including body armor). OBTW, the Navy is ALREADY something like $450M behind…
And any continued ‘wars’ will no longer be funded by a separate appropriation… It’s now coming out of BASE budgets (e.g. about another 10% hit)…
You can read the whole 394 pages HERE. But go to page 9 and look at the non-DOD cuts… Almost all are either Medicare or student loan increases (7.6% I believe), and not a SINGLE cut to an entitlement program!!!
As always, I just want to ask, if DOD is 20% of the Federal Budget, why is DOD taking 50% of the cuts???