ANSWER to The Pentagon's Cost Cuts - Question of the Week

For background see original post here.
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ANSWER:
What are the relative sizes of service budget reductions self-identified for the next 5 years by each of the military services? (rank from highest to lowest counting Navy-Marines as one). source: Defense News (Gannett Government Media Corporation)
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1) $35 billion - Navy Department
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2) $34 billion - Air Force
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3) $29 billion - Army
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4) $2 billion - Special Operations Command
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On January 6, 2011, the DoD reported that the Navy disestablished its Norfolk-based Second Fleet shifting essential functions to its Fleet Forces Command and "will use those savings and more to fund additional ships."

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Venezuela's Presidente (for life?), Hugo Chavez, accused the United States of attempting to frighten the people of South America by reactivating the fleet [9] and vowed that his country's new Sukhoi Su-30 jets could sink any American ships invading Venezuelan waters.[10]
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Submarines are always silent and strange.