Defence Secretary Robert Gates is “inclined to approve” a nearly $3 billion investment, targeted to accelerate the Army’s growth plan. Army secretary Pete Geren is pushing the accomplishment of a planned 74,000 increase in four years rather than five, the total cost of which comes up to $2.8 billion in added personnel costs.
US Army Wants to Grow Faster at Forbes
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September 29th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Another bunch of money down the toilet
September 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Nice. What kind of job is this - wasting taxpayer’s money to “increase in four years rather than five”. WTF do we need that for? Are they planning on attacking Iran or sending more troops to Iraq?
October 7th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Thank you for sharing!
October 7th, 2007 at 10:55 am
You’re welcome