Coast Guard Dodges Budget Ax But Still Sliced by Inflation
Posted By: Brendan McGarry April 7, 2017
The Coast Guard recently avoided a potentially massive budget cut but still struggles to cope with inflation, and the problem is only getting worse, officials said.
“We’re not keeping up with the rate of inflation,” Vice Adm. Charles Ray, deputy commandant for operations, said this week during a panel discussion at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C. “That’s the biggest challenge we’ve got.”
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