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Army

Reductions in USMC Force Structure Won’t Affect Plans to Buy 5,500 JLTVs

Mai Hanoon

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

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The Marine Corps is still looking at buying 5,500 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles even though sequestration cuts are driving the service to lower its expected force structure, a program official said yesterday at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition. Lt. Col. Michael Burks, the Marine Corps’ deputy to the JLTV Joint Program Office, said during a press briefing that despite the Marine Corps changing its expected force structure from about 182,100 Marine to 174,000 due…

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