Cost Of Equipping Army Expected To Triple…

Associated Press Lolita C. Baldor June 26, 2006 at 11:00 PM
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The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment inIraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.

From 2002 to 2006, the Army spent an average of $4 billion a year in annual equipment costs. But as the war takes a harder toll on the military, that number is projected to balloon to more than $12 billion for the federal budget year that starts next Oct. 1, the documents show.

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