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Army Budget Request To Terminate FMTV, EMARSS, Supports Future Force

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

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The president’s fiscal year 2013 budget--the first based on the new strategic guidance--requests $184.6 billion for the Army comprised of $134.6 billion in the base request and $50 billion for overseas contingency operations (OCO). The budget request follows the service’s first priority: train and equip soldiers for Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. Phillip Mcghee, Army budget director, said in a Pentagon budget briefing yesterday. The service budget request also supports efforts toward an adaptable and flexible, modernized force for 2020, with its…

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