The most recent tax filings for A Step to Freedom show the nonprofit brings in more than $5 million annually, mostly from taxpayers, a large portion of which comes from the county.
In May 2013, the Army National Guard spent $10 million on a recruitment campaign tie-in with the upcoming “Man of Steel” Superman film. The expense was ill-timed. Just one month later, Congress ordered the National Guard to reduce staffing levels by 8,000 soldiers due to budget cuts.
Chief of Naval Operations ADM Daryl Caudle recently put a stark number on the submarine problem. The United States is delivering submarines at a rate of about 1.2 per year when the minimum requirement is at least 2.3. As he told the Submarine Industrial Base Council in March, the Navy does not deploy “tons of submarine.” It deploys complete units of combat power.[1]
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