USAFE funding for 2008 matches previous year’s

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USAFE funding for 2008 matches previous year’s
By Bryan Mitchell, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Monday, December 17, 2007

RAF MILDENHALL, England — For the first time in the past several years, U.S. Air Forces in Europe entered the fiscal year without a smaller budget than the previous year.

The sustained level of funding means there will not be cuts similar to last year’s reductions in training and travel opportunities after a mandated 15 percent across-the-board drop in funding, according to Col. Mary Ensminger, USAFE chief of financial analysis division.

“They (airmen) shouldn’t feel a difference this year compared to last,” she said.

The Air Force’s European command has a budget of about $1.1 billion for fiscal 2008, which began Oct. 1.

That is $500 million less than last year’s $1.6 billion, Ensminger said.


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