During a Feb. 7 hearing of the Senate Armed Services airland subcommittee, a quartet of Army senior leaders issued a familiar call for funding increases and budget stability, while seeking greater flexibility to pursue the service's modernization priorities. Lt. Gen. Mike Murray, deputy chief of staff (G-8), told the panel the service "has reached an inflection point . . . we can no longer afford to choose between near-term readiness and modernization." The funding levels requested for fiscal year 2019,...
