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Army: Sequester Ripples Will Harm Everything From Garbage Pickups To Training -- Aol Defense
PENTAGON: With the arbitrary and automatic cuts called sequestration to take effect on Friday, the Army is scrambling to figure out exactly how budget shortfalls will screw up everything from barracks repairs to combat training. "As recently as yesterday," the Army's budget director, Maj. Gen. Karen Dyson, told reporters this morning, "the Army senior leaders were involved in a four-hour ROC [rehearsal of concepts] drill to over those kinds of decisions."
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