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Army

Army Airs Readiness Concerns Before House Panel

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

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The Army’s immediate priority is to ensure soldiers in Afghanistan and those units next to deploy are trained, equipped and ready, as non-deploying units will bear the brunt of constrained resources, a group of generals told the House Armed Services Committee panel on Readiness yesterday. Combat readiness is “absolutely guaranteed” for units deploying to Afghanistan, Homeland Defense units, Korean forward deployed units, the global response force and other combatant command contingency response forces, said Lt. Gen. James Huggins, deputy chief…

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