thats great but Army May Have to Borrow to Meet Payroll
Aviation Week's DTI | Bettina H. Chavanne | May 07, 2008
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Tuesday that if Congress
does not p*** the $1.8 billion Global War on Terror (GWOT)
supplemental, the U.S. Army will be unable to pay troops in mid-June
and may be forced to make a reprogramming request that would borrow
from Navy and Air Force payroll funds.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote letters to members of
Congress Monday encouraging them to p*** the supplemental by
Memorial Day, or money to pay Army troops will run out by June 15.
According to Morrell, Gates asked that Congress be kept apprised of
Army contingency planning if the supplemental isn't p***ed in time.
Last November and December, similar urgency over p***ing the
supplemental focused on the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budget,
which Morrell said is "more robust" than payroll this time
around, "but not by much.
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now that i have everyones attention what do you all think about
this,lets make this civil everyone
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