Base closings out, Global Hawk in _ House panel puts its imprint on Obama’s military budget

Domestic military base closings are out. The Global Hawk drone is back in. The Pentagon wanted another round of base closings in this deficit-cutting era. The Readiness Subcommittee said no, with Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., calling the notion “flawed.” The Pentagon wanted to retire 18 of the Air Force’s Global Hawk drones from the Block 30 program. The Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee rejected that idea.

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