Zimmermann 45
5-Year Member
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2012
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- 17
It has been officially announced that due to the sequester, the annual NYC city Fleet Week has been canceled for 2013.
Good.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the war-fighting world, units are doing without huge chunks of their training budget. The dog-and-pony shows should always be the first items on the chopping block.
This assumes that the premise of "cancelled due to sequestration" is valid.
I agree, The up side is the Coast Guard ships based in Seattle will have renwed interest during or Seafair.
Huh? That interest has translated into a few articles online and a few politicals fighting for their turf. There hasn't been an uprising of support in the northwest. In fact, when I was there (Port Angeles), they weren't exactly the biggest Coast Guard fans.
Interesting about your experience with PA, back in my day the CG was well thought of in that area, of course the ships still had sails that long ago.
Just becasue they say it doesn't make it true. If DOD/DON wants to move money around all they have to do is ask. It happens every year. Any negative impact from sequestration is bad managment on the part of the Department/Agency."Cancelled due to sequestration" is valid.
Just becasue they say it doesn't make it true. If DOD/DON wants to move money around all they have to do is ask. It happens every year. Any negative impact from sequestration is bad managment on the part of the Department/Agency.
Once the money is appropriated, the department/agency can't move the money between accounts (personnel, construction, R&D, etc.), that is a big big no-no and can end in jail time. What you can do is go back to congress with an alternate plan and request to move the money around. How many dept./agencies actually came up with an alternate plan and asked to move money?I was under the impression they didn't have much latitude to determine where cuts would hit. Hard to justify furloughs while whooping it up at "parties."