Funding woes prompt Marines to cancel training exercises
A number of unexpected costs, including major hurricane-damage repairs and unplanned deployments to the U.s.-mexico border, are forcing the Marine Corps to cancel training exercises and will degrade combat readiness, the top Marine general warned.
Gen. Robert Neller said in a memo this week to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer that the Marines have pulled out of three military exercises and cut equipment maintenance. And he warned that Marine participation in more than a dozen other exercises also will be canceled or reduced and other cuts needed if the service doesn’t get budget help.
Neller asks Spencer for help in getting funding freed up.
The Marine Corps said that, by far, the most significant issue forcing the training cuts is the widespread hurricane damage. About $3.5 billion in damage was done to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and surrounding facilities by Hurricanes Florence and Michael. only said goodbye to him almost 7 months ago.”
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