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Missions Could Suffer In Pentagon Budget Crunch, Official Warns

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Thursday, September 16th, 2010

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By Marina Malenic The military will have to make difficult spending decisions as the Pentagon's budget growth begins to slow dramatically, the director of the Joint Staff said yesterday. "The downward pressure on the defense budget is real," said Vice Adm. William Gortney during a speech at the Air Force Association's annual conference outside Washington. "We're in a position of having more missions than stuff, so low priority missions are going to suffer," Gortney added. "We have to figure out…

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