Military Services Preparing Wish Lists of Weapons Not Funded in Base Budget

By Jason Sherman / January 28, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force are drawing up wish lists of weapon systems and other priorities not funded in either the Pentagon's base budget request for fiscal year 2009 or the FY-09 supplemental spending request being crafted to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Service leaders are compiling their top unfunded needs at the request of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, who earlier this month solicited the catalogues from...

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