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February 2010Integrating Sustained Support for Warfighting NeedsOngoing contingency operations have had a significant impact on Navy and MarineCorps equipment. Expeditionary forces, including Seabees, Explosive OrdnanceDisposal, and tactical and support aircraft are experiencing much higher thanexpected wear. The Marine Corps experienced equipment usage rates as much asseven times greater than peacetime rates, tremendously decreasing the projectedlifespan of its gear. Reconstituting the force will refurbish or replace equipmentwhich has been used more extensively than originally anticipated, in order toremain responsive to emerging threats and other contingencies.Past supplemental funding has mitigated most of the Marine Corps and Navy costs,but many items remain in need of repair or replacement. Funds are required toreconstitute Navy/Marine Corps forces to capability levels existing before hostileoverseas operations and to provide critical capability enhancements essential to theconduct of theater missions. Included is funding which is necessary to restore unitsto a desired level of combat capability commensurate with the unit’s future mission.These maintenance and supply activities involve depot (sustainment)repairs/overhauls centrally managed to specified standards. Without requestedfunding, efforts to continue the ongoing fight and simultaneously address the postwarneed to maintain future warfighting readiness will not be achieved.Major elements of the FY 2011 request include:• Personnel. The overseascontingencies request includes4,400 over strength requirementsfor temporary overseas IAmissions such as civil affairs,provincial reconstruction, trainingteams, detainee operations andcustoms inspections. The FY 2011baseline submission supports thetransition to a strength of 202,100Marines, and no contingency funding is requested in FY 2011 for the GrowThe Force initiative. The request includes special pays and entitlements forforward deployed naval personnel supporting overseas contingencyoperations, as well as for over 6,000 Marine Corps reservists. In addition,the OCO request includes Medicare‐Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund(MERHCF) contributions for the 4,400 Navy IA’s performing non‐coremissions in support of OCO. MERHCF contributions for Navy personnel2‐6 FY 2011 Department of the Navy Budget