Odierno: Funding Shortfall Preventing Intended European Base Closures (Updated)

By Jen Judson / March 11, 2013 at 8:06 PM
(Editor's Note: This story has been updated as a result of a clarification from an Army spokeswoman to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno's congressional testimony regarding service consolidation at Weisbaden.) The Army has a $93 million shortfall in funding that prevents it from shuttering European bases already slated for closure as a cost saving measure because Congress has yet to pass a fiscal year 2013 spending bill, according to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno. If...

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