More bullshit.....now its blame the Pentagon ? Well, its always blame somebody, never Obama....after all, hes only the COMMANDER IN CHIEF
Bill resurrects missile defense field at Fort Greely
Published:
June 27, 2009
DEFENSE SPENDING: Senate approves bill that would reverse administration's plans.
By RICHARD MAUER
rmauer@adn.com
Plans by the Defense Department to abandon construction of a third field of 14 missile silos at Fort Greely would be reversed under a bill approved last week by the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to U.S. Sen. Mark Begich.
The bill is the first sign that Alaska's elected officials have been able to alter at least a part of the administration's efforts to scale back some missile defense programs while boosting others.
Putting the partially built Missile Field 2 in mothballs was one piece of the Obama administration's efforts to redirect more than $1 billion in missile defense spending from plans left over from the Bush administration.
Fort Greely, near Delta Junction, is home of most of the Ground Based Interceptor missiles that could be launched, with uncertain success, against a ballistic warhead streaking toward the United States from North Korea or Iran.
The 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, the mammoth annual military programs bill, will direct the administration to finish the first half of the new missile field, according to Lindsay Young, Begich's military legislative assistant. In return for completing seven of the 14 proposed silos in Missile Field 2, the bill would authorize shutting down the existing six silos of the original missile field there, Young said.
Begich, a Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had been urging the administration to make fully operational all 40 silos originally planned for Fort Greely.
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