Army to use O&M dollars to foot bill for FY-16 'Pacific Pathways' drills

By Ellen Mitchell / December 24, 2015 at 12:52 PM
The Army will continue in fiscal year 2016 to use available operation and maintenance dollars to finance three planned Pacific Pathways deployments as officials work to carve out more predictable funding in the years ahead. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green, a spokeswoman for U.S. Army Pacific, said though the service has a dedicated funding line for three deployments a year in the FY-18 to FY-22 program objective memorandum, no such funding exists for FY-16. The money for the three annual series of...

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