Pacific Command Chief Says DOD Budgeted For FY-01 Expecting Supplemental Dollars

By Thomas Duffy / March 28, 2001 at 5:00 AM
In putting together the fiscal year 2001 defense budget request last year, Pentagon budget planners were counting on a supplemental appropriations bill to supply funding to carry some commands through the final two quarters of the fiscal year, Pacific Command Commander-in-Chief Adm. Dennis Blair told a Senate committee this morning. Blair told the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee that his command is facing a $317 million shortfall in funds needed to keep Navy and Marine Corps aircraft flying through the remainder...

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