Military readiness is tenuous, lawmaker says

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Military readiness is tenuous, lawmaker says

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jun 12, 2009 14:54:03 EDT

The top lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel said Friday that military readiness is “tenuous,” and that more damage has been done in almost eight years of war than can be addressed in any one-year defense budget.

At a Friday meeting in which the panel approved $120 billion for military operations and maintenance and $25 billion for construction as part of the 2010 defense budget, its chairman, Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Texas, said that after seven years of continuous combat operations, skills not required for conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan “have atrophied and will take time to restore once the troops are allowed sufficient dwell time.”
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Military readiness is tenuous, lawmaker says