Word: milstar
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Midgetman mobile missiles on hold (1991 saving: $2.5 billion) and ordered a cutback of 129,500 service personnel, three times what the Pentagon proposed. The Senate completed floor action on its version of a military-spending bill and agreed on an $18 billion cut, including the Milstar satellite communications system (1991 price tag: $1.6 billion) and the C-17 transport (1991 saving: $1.4 billion) but salvaging a pair of the controversial B-2s. Clearly distressed, President Bush called for an orderly funding cutback, "not a fire sale...