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Pentagon to Rescind Order Dissolving Stars and Stripes Newspaper
Pentagon to Rescind Order Dissolving Stars and Stripes Newspaper
By Carla Babb
September 11, 2020 06:38 PM
The Pentagon says it will rescind its order for a government-funded, independent military newspaper to cease publication by September 30, nearly a week after President Donald Trump tweeted that he would stop budget cuts from his own administration that would have closed Stars and Stripes.
"You do not have to submit the Plan of Action and Milestones for a Stripes closure in FY 2021," Army Colonel Paul Haverstick, the acting director of Defense Media Activity, wrote in an email Thursday to the publisher of Stars and Stripes.
The Department of Defense spending plans, released in February, eliminated all government funding for the paper for fiscal 2021, which begins October 1.
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By Carla Babb
September 11, 2020 06:38 PM
The Pentagon says it will rescind its order for a government-funded, independent military newspaper to cease publication by September 30, nearly a week after President Donald Trump tweeted that he would stop budget cuts from his own administration that would have closed Stars and Stripes.
"You do not have to submit the Plan of Action and Milestones for a Stripes closure in FY 2021," Army Colonel Paul Haverstick, the acting director of Defense Media Activity, wrote in an email Thursday to the publisher of Stars and Stripes.
The Department of Defense spending plans, released in February, eliminated all government funding for the paper for fiscal 2021, which begins October 1.
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allocated to the military and they couldn't keep a military news paper running? A military news paper that has been around since the Civil War? It was shithole and his administration that decided it's fate to shut it down.
Suckers and losers comments was the only thing that change the outcome of the paper. I hope to GOD that this effed administration through the Pentagon don't reshape the military paper in their effed up imagine. 