News Story: US Navy - Sequester Means Strike Groups Could Stay Home

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By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS

Increasingly alarmed by the inability of Congress to pass a spending bill or avoid sequestration, the military service chiefs are providing more details about what will happen if lawmakers don’t take action.

For the U.S. Navy, the rising crescendo of warnings now hits at the heart of the fleet’s activities — the deployed carrier strike groups (CSGs) and amphibious ready groups (ARGs) that project naval power around the world, and that underpin U.S. military activities in the Middle East and the Pacific.

Should sequestration strike after March 1, warns Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, the fleet will be forced to stop “nearly all non-deployed operations,” a move “which will ultimately prevent CSGs and ARGs from deploying.”

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