Administration Developing New Military Readiness Reporting System

By Thomas Duffy / August 8, 2001 at 5:00 AM
The Bush administration is putting together a new method for determining military readiness status that addresses all the capabilities of military combat units rather than only their ability to fight in a major theater war, the Pentagon's top personnel and readiness official said today. The administration expects to have an outline of the new system to send to Congress next February when it submits its fiscal year 2003 budget request. David Chu, the under secretary of defense for personnel and...

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