By Paul McLeary on May 13, 2021 at 2:25 PM Marine Corps Gen. David Berger. WASHINGTON: Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger pledged today he won’t ask for a budget increase for at least the next two years. Berger has already said that he didn’t request a larger budget in the upcoming 2022 budget, but he pushed that goal further this afternoon, declaring at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference that “for two years at least we will not ask for one additional dollar” from the White House or Congress. Over the past two years, Berger has pushed for what have been the most sweeping changes to the size and composition of his force among the armed services, and informed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier this year he would not request any more money in the 2022 budget than what the Corps received in 2021.