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Milley: Pentagon Could Look To Save Funds With Adjustments To Overseas Basing, Exercises

Milley: Pentagon Could Look To Save Funds With Adjustments To Overseas Basing, Exercises
Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

The Pentagon could look to adjustments to overseas basing and exercise decisions to save funds in the face of likely flat or declining budgets in the coming years, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday. Army Gen. Mark Milley echoed previous comments from senior Pentagon officials that the department is unlikely to meet their call for three to five percent real budget growth, adding “there’s a reasonable prospect that they could actually decline significantly.” “In an ideal world,…

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