Commander: Special ops to lose $1 billion

Washington Times ^ | 1/29/13 | Kristina Wong

[Nachum]

The commander of U.S. Special Operations Command said Tuesday that his unit’s budget would lose $1 billion this year as a result of the defense budget stalemate in Washington. During an annual National Defense Industrial Association conference for special operators, Navy Adm. William McRaven noted that the Defense Department is operating on a continuing resolution, which limits spending to 2012 levels, even as automatic, across-the-board spending cuts called sequestration are set to begin March 1. “The continuing resolution … in all honesty puts a greater constraint on us than sequester

[Nachum]

Obama vs. the U.S. Military

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[jiggyboy]

Another case of journalistic malpractice: the article fails to note whether this billion is coming off a budget of three million or thirty million or what.

[Always A Marine]

This does not bother me in the least. Special Operations forces are growing so large that they are becoming a lot less "special" than they once truly were. Everybody wants to be special even though only a very few can be, so now we simply designate them so.

A community that was long comprised of a few specialized units that most people knew very little about has since grown into a large hodgepodge of high-priced assets competing for manpower, funding, training assets - and work. And that small community of tight-lipped professionals has devolved into a circus of showboating publicity hounds, now gone Hollywood. Admiral McRaven is their attention loving champion.

Let's not be fooled for a minute. The Defense Department is every bit as bloated as the rest of the federal government, and can stand a diet.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Can't take away money from the welfare queens or the snail darter or Planned Parenthood. The only place in the govt with any fat at all is the military that protects us all.

Just great :(

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