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Punaro Targets Military Benefits

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Thursday, September 9th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford A senior Pentagon advisor yesterday described the Pentagon’s healthcare, retirement, and personnel systems as ticking time bombs that must be overhauled to avoid a budget catastrophe. Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro also acknowledged the budgetary problems caused by the Pentagon's "procurement processes and programs, where the dollars increase while the quantities decrease." And he spoke favorably, during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, about Defense Secretary Robert Gates' so-called…

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