About half of those cuts would come from the Pentagon, including reduction in purchasing, a freeze on pay for non-combat personnel and a reduction in overseas bases.
Among them: A shutdown would lead to a substantial reduction of personnel at the SEC, hampering regulatory oversight of the financial markets.
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In the specific case of the SEC, for example, this would mean a reduction of personnel from the usual 3, 969 to 174 engaged in law enforcement and 158 engaged in the protection of life or property.
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The increased departures reflect the 5.5% reduction in military personnel that is taking place by 2017 as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down.
It cannot achieve likely targets for deficit reduction without attacking personnel costs unless it wants to leave the joint force bereft of cutting-edge weapons at a time when other countries are fielding impressive new military systems.
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And it said hitting future targets was dependent on achieving savings elsewhere in the defence budget, including in the reduction in the number of serving personnel and civilian staff.
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The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which has forecast a much higher reduction in public sector jobs, said the picture painted by the OBR differed from reports it had received from "managers on the ground".
Nevertheless, I believe that this salary reduction should have been for politicians and not for technical personnel.
That means across-the-board reductions in every facet of military spending other than overseas contingencies and personnel outlays, a chaotic process in which waste would be maximized by the uniformity with which the rate of reduction is applied.
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