Posted on 05/20/2013 7:20:18 PM PDT by haffast
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Friday sent two budget items to Congress – one to provide funding for combat operations next year, and another to limit the sting of sequestration this year.
The Defense Department is asking for $79.4 billion for its overseas contingency operations, or OCO, budget in 2014. The department did not include the OCO request with the $526.6 billion Pentagon base budget request submitted in April, saying that continuing deliberations over troop levels in Afghanistan made the spending picture unclear.
Troop numbers in Afghanistan will decline markedly during fiscal 2014, which starts Oct. 1. The Obama administration has said it would remove just over half the current number of troops before stabilizing the level at about 34,000 by February. The drawdown is expected to continue after Afghan elections are held in April, during which U.S. troops will assist with security.
The new OCO request is the smallest since 2005. Congress approved $86.5 billion for war spending in the current fiscal year.
Though troop numbers will be far lower, the OCO request only fell marginally in part because DOD needs to withdraw equipment and remove facilities that have been built up in Afghanistan over 12 years of fighting, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters Monday.
“It’s not all about cost-per-troop in the OCO budget,” he said.
The department also sent a $9.6 billion reprogramming request to Congress to shift funds from military personnel and investment accounts into those with pressing shortfalls as a result of nearly $40 billion in sequestration cuts in the current fiscal year.
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Pentagon Wants $79.4B for Afghanistan in 2014
May. 20, 2013 - 04:10PM | By MARCUS WEISGERBER
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130520/DEFREG/305200025/Pentagon-Wants-79-4B-Afghanistan-2014
Spend less , just bomb the entire place back into the STone Age . Including Iran
I just watched a 3 part series on youtube called . This Is What Winning Looks Like
I think Afghanistan is a write off ,no more lives wasted
They are already in the Stone Age.
$79 Billion for bombs and deliver em via B-52. A little more rubble, a lot less trouble. That general that got canned for bombing a village with a B1 bomber had the right idea.
Tell them no.
We have our own problems. I’m tired of fooling with foreigners.
Obama has already placed our troops in Lybia, Mali and Somalia and probably some other countries in Africa. He wants his own war - the Pentagon is getting ready for whatever comes from the Messiah’s follies.
The Obama military? Do they want to build bath houses?
No. Send it to Oklahoma instead. If we are going to go bankrupt then at least lets spend it on our country.
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