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he also plans to close the business transformation agency which you've probably never heard of which which spends $340 million a year. also on the hit list, the joint forces command in norfolk, virginia, which, in fact, commands no forces but employs nearly 6,000 people and spends $240 million a year. beyond the specific cuts, gates is out to end the decades-old pattern of sharp wartime increases and steep peacetime declines. >> if you were to graph the defense budget going back the last 40 or 50 years, it would look like the e.k.g. of a fibrillating heart. >> reporter: he plans to c...

new attack on a familiar enemy-- fat in the budget. the secretary of defense announced plans to cut $100 billion out of it over the next five years. the budget is now about $750 billion a year. one target is a major command in virginia that employs nearly 6,000 people and government officials in the state-- democrats and republicans alike-- are up in arms. david martin has more on the planned cuts and why the pentagon says they're necessary. >> reporter: after nearly a decade of war-time spending, defense secretary gates today took dead aim at a pwhroeded pentagon bureaucracy which s...