Gates to Cut Major Military Command in Virginia, Officials Say

AP VIA FOX ^ | 08/09/10 | AP via FOX

[Doogle]

WASHINGTON -- Officials briefed on the decision say Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to eliminate a major military command in Norfolk, Va., and try to cut the Pentagon's use of outside contractors by 10 percent next year.

The plan was to be announced at a Pentagon press conference on Monday. It is part of a broader effort to trim $100 billion from the military's mammoth budget in the next five years, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begin to wind down and Congress turns its attention more to domestic priorities.

[Rebelbase]

Another Zero adminisration “economic” housing boost for the VA tidewater area.

[SlowBoat407]

Whoops, that’s Randy Forbes’ district. Guess he’s paying the price for being an “R”.

[KC_Lion]

I have no doubt sir that many a military program could use some good “weight loss”, but isn't odd that when the Lib's cut the budget its ALWAYS the Military, and ALWAYS threaten that “oh no! Have to Cut EMT,Teachers, Fireman, Police,....”

[tirednvirginia]

REvenge? Virginia has turned against Obama and our new Republican governor has made significant cuts to bALANCE THE budget. We don’t need any federal bailouts.

At least we didn’t before this.

[Doogle]

at the same time..here's another headline... 85 Days to Decide: Democrats Roll Dice With Education Aid Vote 26 BILLION

guess we'll have to wait to see what's in this bill too and how much actually goes to teachers

[tirednvirginia]

Nope, its not Forbes district. Its a dem - Glenn Nye’s district.

[Southack]

Even a broken clock can get it right twice a day...lots of bureaucratic fat can be cut from our military (and cutting might even improve readiness).

And do we really need $400,000 shoulder-launched missiles when our enemies use $28 RPG’s?

[LibLieSlayer]

As Zell Miller said... “SPITBALLS”!

LLS

[tgusa]

And a Conservative R at that.

[Doogle]

.....guess it depends on which one your holding

[bmwcyle]

I have worked there. Jiffycom is a base always looking for or faking a mission.

[The Pack Knight]

Yeah, I was worried it was something important for a second.

They changed LANTCOM to JFCOM when they thought there wasn’t a threat to CONUS after the Cold War, and then, when they realized there was after 9/11, did they change JFCOM back to something useful? Of course not - lets add another command with a redundant mission instead!

I always figured the only reason JFCOM was still there was just for aspiring one-stars to have an extra place to punch their joint duty tickets.

[LibLieSlayer]

webb is writing another novel featuring incestuous pornography.

LLS

[Sybeck1]

How true. Defense is constitutional mandated. It should be the last thing cut.

[tgusa]

Wasn’t JFCOM one of Rumsfeld’s wet dreams, along with ‘transformation’?

[bmwcyle]

No they adopted the name tranformation command to fly under the radar. The command picked the name not Rumsfeld. Remsfeld was pleased at their selection.

[BwanaNdege]

What is the $400k missile?

[shalom aleichem]

and further punish a red state (loss of jobs and economic impact of base)

[The Pack Knight]

I’m certainly not going to jump on them when they’re doing something right. I just wish they’d apply this same logic to the rest of the government. There are entire cabinet-level departments that are just as redundant as JiffyCOM.

[JimSEA]

Congress turns its attention more to domestic priorities.

As in increased domestic spending. I don't know is this closing is warranted or not but I do know that any savings will be matched by spending increases on programs for the Democrats client groups 10 to 1 for each saved dollar.