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Budget cuts may hurt Georgia military
Major General believes National Guard could be impacted
1028Jim Butterworth
Maj. Gen. Jim Butterworth
Just how proposed military budget cuts might affect Georgia isn’t clear, but just the talk of them is enough for Jim Butterworth, the state’s adjutant general, to bristle.“If you consider the fact the Georgia National Guard is the eighth largest National Guard organization (in the U.S.), we would take a considerable cut,” Maj. Gen. Jim Butterworth said. “And the impact would be on our operations, meaning actual movement of men and equipment and maintenance on that equipment. And the other impact is personnel — that would be another area that we would have to address.”Butterworth, a Habersham County native, reports to Gov.