The review, announced by David Cameron in October, included measures to cut military personnel by 17, 000, scrap Nimrod spy planes and retire the HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier leaving Britain without a carrier strike capability until the end of the decade.

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David Barno, a retired Army lieutenant general, said if the sequester remains law, all the military services will be forced to cut personnel.

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The pay and benefits of military personnel stationed at these bases are exempted from sequestration, but just about everything else would be cut drastically during the last seven months of the fiscal year, meaning civilian defense workers would be furloughed, maintenance would be deferred, and dozens of other activities impacting local economies would be decremented.

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