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Amos Sees Continued Risk With USMC Modernization

Julie Samuel

Friday, November 9th, 2012

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The Marine Corps is “assuming risk” now with equipment modernization and unavoidably will continue to do so during a decade-long period of fiscal austerity, Commandant Gen. James Amos said yesterday. Amos addressed a Washington think tank two days after voters ensured the nation sticks with President Barack Obama’s defense-spending plans, which include shrinking the Marine Corps’ end strength from a previous level of 202,000 down to 182,000 troops. The commandant said he sees the Pentagon “about a year and a…

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