Army Ask for Congressional Support

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Army Ask for Congressional Support
Army News Service | Donna Miles | September 27, 2007


WASHINGTON - The Army, stressed and stretched by six years of conflict, needs continued and uninterrupted support and resourcing to maintain its current operational levels while preparing for the future, its top civilian and military leaders told Congress yesterday.

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Gen. Casey urged committee members to support these efforts into the next fiscal year, and to ensure there's no funding gap after Oct. 1 that could slow efforts under way.

"The Army is the best in the world at what it does, because of our values, our ethos, our people and your support," he said.

Keeping that standard, he said, will require more hard sacrifices by Soldiers and their Families and clear recognition by national leaders of the threat the country faces and the need to maintain an Army able to face it.

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To keep that promise, the Army must focus on resetting the force, he said. Resetting means more than simply fixing or replacing equipment that's being used at five times its programmed rate, he told the committee. It also means giving Soldiers and their Families time to regroup between deployments.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,150744,00.html



uhc comment: To the butthead who wrote this, the headline should read "Army Asks for Congressional Support".