Military Training, Maintenance Hit Hardest by $37 Billion Cuts
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Pentagon operations and maintenance spending will be hit hardest by the $37.2 billion of automatic cuts known as sequestration, according to a report by the Defense Department’s comptroller.
Military personnel cuts would account for $20.3 billion, procurement accounts would be reduced by $9.8 billion, and research funding would lose $6 billion. Construction, housing and management funds would absorb the rest of the cuts.