It didn't take long for the somber term "Black Monday" to spring into general usage. The words referred to Monday, April 6, the day Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates drew himself up and announced his plans to terminate or postpone the bulk of USAF's major modernization programs. Gates' decisions were taken within the context of deep reductions in the proposed Fiscal 2010 defense budget, which had not yet been finalized. He characterized the moves as his "recommendations" to President Obama, but the act of revealing such advice publicly and in advance was unprecedented.
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机译：阴沉的“黑色星期一”这个词很快就开始广泛使用。这句话是指4月6日星期一，即国防部长罗伯特·盖茨（Robert M. Gates）振作起来并宣布他计划终止或推迟美国空军大部分主要现代化计划的计划。盖茨的决定是在2010财年国防预算提案大幅削减的背景下做出的，该预算尚未最终确定。他将这些举动描述为对奥巴马总统的“建议”，但是公开和事先公开这种建议的举动是前所未有的。
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