Federal budget cuts ground Air Force aircraft

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A top general says federal budget cuts that will ground one-third of the U.S. Air Force's active-duty force of combat planes including fighters and bombers means "accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to respond immediately to new contingencies as they occur."

The Department of Defense overall faces a $487 billion reduction in projected spending over the next decade and possibly tens of billions more as tea partyers and other fiscal conservatives embrace automatic spending cuts as the best means to reduce the government's trillion-dollar deficit.

On the same day, the Navy confirmed that the Blue Angels aerobatic team would be cancelling the rest of its season.

http://news.yahoo.com/federal-budget-cuts-ground-air-113356244.html

No more Oil wars I think!