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would force an additional $60 billion in automatic cuts to the defense bud- get for FY 2013, over and above the $45 billion already taken — a cumula- tive 18-percent cut in one year, plus nearly one half-trillion dollars in ad- ditional cuts over the next nine years. The defense budget consumes only about 20 percent of the na- tional budget but will be hit with 50 percent of the cuts. Such cuts would devastate the


all-volunteer force that already has borne 100 percent of the nation’s wartime sacrifice for the past decade. Sequestration would require cu-


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mulative force reductions of more than 200,000, leaving the small- est ground forces since 1940 and a remaining force more vulnerable to emerging threats. It likely also would require breaking compensa- tion, health care, and other sup- port commitments to generations of servicemembers, families, and survivors who already have spent decades sacrificing their personal interests in service to their country. It is difficult to see how the ser- vices could continue to recruit and retain a high-quality career force after imposing such grossly dispro-


portional budgetary penalties on servicemembers and their families. We understand everyone will need to share the sacrifice of containing our debt, but the se- questration process would dispro- portionately burden the military community. MOAA President Vice Adm.


Norbert R. Ryan Jr., USN-Ret., articu- lated MOAA’s bottom line in a May 15 op ed piece in TheVirginian-Pilot. “Are Congress and the nation so oblivious to the impending eviscera- tion of our national defense capa- bilities that all attention must stay focused on election politics — despite the ominous ticks counting down to the Jan. 2 national defense dooms- day?” Ryan wrote. “This is not a po- litical or budget drill. This is a crisis. And we need legislators of both par- ties to put national defense first and politics second if they hope to lead our country out of it.”


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— Contributors are Col. Steve Strobridge, USAF-Ret., direc tor; Col. Mike Hayden, USAF-Ret.; Col. Bob Norton, USA-Ret.; Cmdr. René Campos, USN-Ret.; Capt. Kathy Beasley, USN-Ret.; Col. Phil Odom, USAF- Ret.; Karen Golden; Bret Shea; and Matt Murphy, MOAA’s Government Relations Department. To subscribe to MOAA’s Legis- lative Update, visit www.moaa.org/email.


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