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04-04-2013, 09:05 AM
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It’s prom season — not just for high school kids renting tuxes, but for members of the military, whose formal balls recur annually, like corsage blooms in the spring.
This year, sequestration and tight fiscal times are playing the spoiler, at least for the Army, which has cancelled its fancy-dress Birthday Ball because of the budget cuts, according to a recent memo from Army Secretary John McHugh and General Raymond Odierno.
“Due to the uncertain Fiscal Year 2013 funding caused by the combined effects of a possible year-long continuing resolution and sequestration, along with the need to protect funding for wartime operations, we are cancelling the HQDA Army Birthday Ball scheduled for 15 June 2013,” the killjoy memo states. “This action supports the department’s overall effort to reduce spending of appropriated funds.”
Which means there’ll be no soldiers in formal dress adorned with medals. No dancing in the Washington Hilton ballroom, no women in gowns, no toasts.
cont
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/armys-formal-birthday-ball-a-sequester-casualty/2013/04/04/cf6acdd2-9c86-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_blog.html
It’s prom season — not just for high school kids renting tuxes, but for members of the military, whose formal balls recur annually, like corsage blooms in the spring.
This year, sequestration and tight fiscal times are playing the spoiler, at least for the Army, which has cancelled its fancy-dress Birthday Ball because of the budget cuts, according to a recent memo from Army Secretary John McHugh and General Raymond Odierno.
“Due to the uncertain Fiscal Year 2013 funding caused by the combined effects of a possible year-long continuing resolution and sequestration, along with the need to protect funding for wartime operations, we are cancelling the HQDA Army Birthday Ball scheduled for 15 June 2013,” the killjoy memo states. “This action supports the department’s overall effort to reduce spending of appropriated funds.”
Which means there’ll be no soldiers in formal dress adorned with medals. No dancing in the Washington Hilton ballroom, no women in gowns, no toasts.
cont
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/armys-formal-birthday-ball-a-sequester-casualty/2013/04/04/cf6acdd2-9c86-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_blog.html