the Army has not budgeted properly. It hasn't put enough money in, whatever it is, shortfalls, the Budget Control Act, for whatever reason it is, we are not getting the Black Hawks that we need, right?
Norman D. Dicks: “the Army has not budgeted properly. It hasn't put enough money in, whatever it is, shortfalls, the Budget Control Act…”
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Dicks highlights budget shortfalls affecting Black Hawk helicopter procurement.
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