Pentagon Releases Record 2016 Military Budget Proposal

The Pentagon has issued a news release today related to President Obama proposing a record-high FY2016 military spending budget, conspicuously avoiding the term “record” at all. They did repeatedly make reference to sequestration, even though Congress never actually gave the military a sequestration-level budget.

The release does offer some details on where the money is going, including creating six new army brigade combat teams, building nine new ships, buying scores of new warplanes, and adding funding to SOCOM’s own aviation program .... http://benswann.com