The Office of the Secretary of Defense is tapping the Army to shoulder a roughly $250 million bill associated with launching U.S. Africa Command into full operational capability in fiscal year 2009, according to a Pentagon official familiar with details of a classified budget document. While all of the military services expected to split the FY-09 "bill" for AFRICOM, which stood up last month in an initial capacity, OSD recently deemed the Army as the most appropriate organization to carry...
