
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Friday the Army will have to continue pushing ahead with major divestiture decisions in the coming years to fully fund modernization efforts, calling the $13.5 billion officials included in the latest budget request to shift away from low priorities “tepid” compared to last year’s $33 billion. “This year was much more tepid than last year. We moved over $30 billion across the [next five fiscal years] last year. It was about north of $12 [billion]…