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The Navy is in a good place, CNO Adm. Mike Gilday says, as we present that analysis to senior decision makers, and we really re-litigate, if you will, the ‘22 budget submit which was very heavily in the Navy’s favor with respect to shipbuilding.”
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Bradleys of the 4th Infantry Division on a rail car in Poland.
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has halted planning for the Trump administration’s order to move 12,000 US troops out of Germany, a move defense officials once said was critical to a larger realignment of US posture overseas.
“The previous planning that was ongoing for the previous initiatives that have been put on freeze,” Gen Tod Wolters, European Command chief, told reporters this morning.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “is at this moment in the process of conducting a very, very thorough review” of the previous planning to move 12,000 troops out of Germany to bases elsewhere in Europe and the US, and “he’ll ultimately embrace our US President and the White House, and deliver us a decision.”