The Air Force has asked for $ 10 billion more in its Fiscal 2016 budget than it will get if sequestration-driven by the 2011 Budget Control Act-comes back in September. Service leaders said in February that at the requested dollar amount, US AF can still do most of what the national military strategy requires. At sequester levels, though, the strategy will have to be thrown out and replaced with something less demanding, because, as Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh Ⅲ said, "We simply can't execute the defense strategic guidance as written." Speaking at AFA's Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla., in February, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told reporters, "The national strategy is a good national strategy. We ought not to change it, so we are ... just going to make the case as strongly as we know how with ... Congress that we need this additional funding." She also said the Air Force, industry, and AFA "must work together to ask Congress to get rid of sequestration permanently."
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机译：空军要求在其2016财年预算中增加100亿美元，如果9月份又恢复了由《 2011年预算控制法案》推动的封存措施，那将比这多得多。服务领导人在2月表示，按要求的美元金额，美国空军仍然可以完成国家军事战略要求的大部分任务。但是，在隔离级别，必须放弃该战略，并用要求不高的东西代替，因为正如参谋长马克·A·威尔士三世参谋长所说：“我们根本无法按照书面执行国防战略指导。 ”空军部长Deborah Lee James在2月于佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的AFA航空战研讨会上说，“国家战略是一项很好的国家战略。我们不应该改变它，因此，我们...充分利用国会所知道的方式，向国会证明我们需要这笔额外的资金。”她还说，空军，工业界和AFA“必须共同努力，要求国会永久摆脱隔离。”
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