Neller: Marine Corps reforms found $3.6B in savings, cost avoidance

The Marine Corps identified $3.6 billion in savings and cost avoidance, including $567 million in the fiscal year 2019 budget, to reinvest in readiness, according to the service's top general.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller told the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee last week about the savings found throughout the future years defense program in his written statement.

The service recently completed its full financial statement audit for FY-17, which Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Harrison told Inside the Navy in an April 26 statement partially contributed to the identified dollars.

Neller was testifying April 24 to the subcommittee alongside Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson about the Navy's FY-19 budget.