Army Funds Crunch Would Affect Installations Worldwide

[unhappycamper]

Army Funds Crunch Would Affect Installations Worldwide
American Forces Press Service | November 30, 2007

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Installation operations and quality of life programs for soldiers and their families would be affected worldwide if the Army doesn't receive additional funding from Congress soon, a senior officer said here today.

"Absolutely, it's an urgent need," Maj. Gen. Edgar E. Stanton III, director of the Army's budget office, said of the necessity for the Army to obtain nearly $55 billion from Congress to fund operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The active Army is now using $26 billion in appropriations that were earmarked for base-support operations to fund its overseas global war on terrorism operations, Stanton said.

Congress has approved supplemental funding for war operations, but the legislation comes attached with timetables for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. President Bush has vowed to veto any such legislation that crosses his desk.

The Army is now spending about $7 billion monthly to support worldwide installation operations and overseas war fighting requirements, Stanton said. Without additional funding, the Army will exhaust its base operations and maintenance accounts by mid-February, he said.

In a memorandum dated Nov. 26, Gen. Richard A. Cody, vice chief of staff of the Army, directed that all Army commanders and agency directors begin planning to curtail operations and related expenses that do not directly support warfighters engaged in the global war on terrorism.


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[MADem]

1. BYOBW---Bring Your Own Buttwipe!! And clean your own workspaces!

First to go are the cleaning/janitorial services. "Working Parties" become all the rage.

Heat gets turned way down. Everyone is told to wear sweaters. Every other light gets turned off! Computers aren't kept running--shut 'em down completely if you aren't actually working!

I've been through those austerity drills--not fun!