If automatic budget cuts known as sequestration take effect at the beginning of March, the Navy would be forced to halt all deployments to South America and the Caribbean and limit deployments to Europe to just ships supporting ballistic missile defense missions, the Navy’s top officer warned in a recent memorandum. Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the Chief of Naval Operations, wrote in an internal Jan. 25 memo that the service would face more than $4 billion in additional cuts to the…
Sequestration Would Halt Navy Deployments To South America, Europe, CNO Says
Defense Daily Staff
SHARE:
