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Defense cuts could lead to military draft, House Armed Services chairman says
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 20, 2011 05:59pm |
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| Author | Felicia Sonmez |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 02:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If the bipartisan debt supercommittee is unable to reach a deal by Thanksgiving, across-the-board cuts to defense spending could lead to the reinstatement of a military draft, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday.
“We ... need to understand what it’s going to mean to keep an all-volunteer force,” Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) told Fox News Channel Monday. “Do we want to reinstitute the draft? Some of the cuts we’re talking about would take over 200,000 out of end strength from our military.”
He also expressed concern about the effect that the across-the-board cuts would have on military pensions and other benefits. |
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