Read the story at DMN here. I love their website and if you haven't visited I highly recommend you do so. One other thing. I'm of mixed opinion when it comes to the Pentagon budget woes.
How can you be looking to cut ships, squadrons and battalions, yet you keep legacy requirements when it comes to the number of airplanes, ships, etc that need to be purchased?
The only weapon system that has seen the needed quantities cut is the AAV upgrade.
We're going to have many fewer squadrons in the Marine Corps and Navy, yet the number of F-35's needed remains the same. Ditto with the MV-22, AH-1Z, UH-1Y...even the JLTV.
Yet we're looking at a Marine Corps that AT BEST will be almost 30,000 bodies smaller.
I don't get it.
