Army Four-Star: Sequestration Will Impact Afghan Exit Plans

By Tony Bertuca / February 21, 2013 at 9:39 PM
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL -- The Army general tasked with supervising the return of billions of dollars in equipment from Afghanistan said today that sequestration threatens to delay the service's plans to exit the country. "Sequestration takes away all of our flexibility," Gen. Dennis Via, the chief of Army Materiel Command, said here at the Association of the United States Army's winter conference. "That will delay if we are talking about the time line we have been given to get the...

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