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Joint Chiefs welcome House fiscal 2013 budget proposal

The lower chamber's bill would significantly soften the blow against DoD and potentially eliminate current plans such as civilian furloughs because of the automatic budget cuts. The remainder of the government would remain under both sequestration and a full-year continuing resolution.

Tags: DoD , sequestration , Congress , continuing resolution , Ray Odierno , Jonathan Greenert , Mark Welsh , Jared Serbu , House Appropriations Committee , House , Veterans Affairs

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Sequestration treadmill picking up steam across DoD

The automatic budget cuts set to occur under sequestration will go into effect as a matter of law on Friday. But their full impact won't be felt until late this spring, long after lawmakers encounter the next budget showdown.

Tags: DoD , sequestration , OMB , budget , Karen Dyson , Curt Rauhut , Mark Welsh , Jared Serbu , House Appropriations Committee , Air Force , Marine Corps , Army , service contracts

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Military issues dire warnings of readiness crisis, decries political gridlock

Among the warnings the military's top uniformed officers delivered to the Senate Tuesday: Half of Marine Corps units will fall below readiness standards by the end of the year, the Army will have to curtail training for 80 percent of its ground forces and shipyards are already becoming short-staffed because of DoD's hiring freeze.

Tags: Congress , DoD , workforce , readiness , Senate Armed Services Committee , sequestration , Martin Dempsey , Ashton Carter , Mark Ferguson , Raymond Odierno , Jared Serbu

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Marine survey lists concerns on women in combat

Tags: Marine Corps , DoD , women in combat , AFCEA , U.S. Naval Institute , Jonathan Greenert , Navy

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Marines testing women in combat jobs

Female Marine officers will attend the grueling infantry officer school at the Marine Corps' Quantico, Va., base as part of an experiment to gauge whether women can handle the course's extreme physical and mental challenges.

Tags: DoD , Marine Corps , DoD Report , Federal Drive

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Postwar Marines: smaller, less focused on land war

Congress ponders the question: Does a nation drowning in debt really need two armies?

Tags: DoD , Marine Corps , Mike Mullen , Joint Chiefs of Staff , Congress

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Opponent to gay ban repeal changes opinion

Marine Gen. James Amos now calls the repeal of "don't ask don't tell" a non-event and says it does not undermine the war effort.

Tags: DoD , gay rights , Barack Obama , Marine Corps

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USMC Commandant glad EFV is gone

About 80 percent of the Corps' tactical vehicle budget would have gone to the costly program.

Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Pentagon , USMC , EFV , Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle ,

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Army, Marines begin separate ERP rollouts

The Army and Marine Corps are both in the early phases of deploying logistics accountability systems that will replace a collection of disconnected, stovepiped IT systems and processes that have grown up since the 1960s. Though the systems share the same objective, they were made by different vendors, prompting questions from one member of Congress.

Tags: DoD , Congress , management , Army , Marine Corps , Claire McCaskill , financial management , DoD budget , Enterprise Resource Planning , Drew Dwyer , Senate Armed Services Committee , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

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DoD leaders clash on 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'

Josh Gerstein, a reporter for POLITICO, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss the latest development in the debate over the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy.

Tags: Josh Gerstein , Politico , Don't Ask Don't Tell , military , DoD , Robert Gates , Marine , commandant , gay rights , Dorobek Insider

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