
Congress gave the military a two-year period of partial relief from sequestration cuts, and the National Guard Bureau is using that as a chance to continue negotiating with the Army and Air Force over the best balance of active, reserve and Guard forces. “What we don’t want to do is rush into failure--we’re got some relief with the $22 billion added [in fiscal year 2014]and the $9 billion added [in FY ‘15] that then gives us a few years to…