The Obama administration says numbers compiled from federal agencies and its own budget office cover only cuts from March to September.

Some states may be able to move money around to deal with the cuts.

The White House says Ohio would lose $25 million for primary and secondary education funding. It also would lose $22 million for education programs for children with disabilities.

It also says about 26,000 civilian defense department employees would be furloughed and that there would be less money for early education services and programs that pay for meals for seniors.

The court-martial for Sgt. Adam Holcomb of Youngstown, Ohio, will begin around 1 p.m. Tuesday at Fort Bragg. A court spokesman said the judge delayed the original morning start time.

Holcomb is one of eight soldiers charged in the death of 19-year-old Pvt. Danny Chen, of New York.

Military officials say Chen shot himself last year in Afghanistan after weeks of physical and emotional abuse. They say he was taunted for his Chinese-American ethnicity.

Holcomb faces a slew of charges, the most serious of which is negligent homicide. He faces nearly 18 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

During the change of command ceremony on Tuesday, Col. Amanda Gladney thanked those who helped make her two year leadership over the 88th Air Base successful.

“To the men and women of the mighty 88th, you are the best period,” Gladney said.

“Over the past two years you have moved mountains. Thank you for caring for each other, and taking care of this mission.”

The mantel was then passed to Col. Cassie Barlow, who was then presented with her first salute as leader of the 88th Airbase Wing.

She also praised the men and women now under her command.

“I am proud to be your coach, your cheerleader, your mentor, and your confidant. I look forward to being a member of your team, and serving with you as we continue the tradition of excellence that you have established.”

Barlow previously served as Director of Manpower and Personnel of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.

The 88th Air Base wing is one of the largest and most complex wings in the Air force. It includes a major acquisition center, research and development labs, a major command headquarters, an air lift wing, and the National Museum of the US Air Force-the world’s largest military air museum.

Wright-Patterson is home to more than 27,000 employees and is the largest single-site employer in the state of Ohio.

They’re meeting at the Greater Columbus Convention Center for a conference hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association. It’s a trade association that specializes in educating companies and the government about the link between industry and the military.

WOSU’s Steve Brown talked with NDIA Assistant Vice President Sam Campagna. Click the play button above to hear more about the NDIA, and how military suppliers are faring in an age of defense budget cuts.

Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger received her fourth star yesterday at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton as she was promoted to oversee the Air Force Materiel Command. The command develops and maintains Air Force aircraft and weapons programs.

Wolfenbarger previously served as its vice commander and has held other positions at the base. She’s from nearby Greene County.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz led the promotion ceremony and called Wolfenbarger “an extraordinary public servant and a model Air Force officer.”

Wolfenbarger takes over for retiring Gen. Donald Hoffman, who served for 42 years.

She is the second female four-star general in the military. Army Gen. Ann Dunwoody earned the rank in 2008.

After 28 years as a Navy Officer, Robert Haas retired. Haas who is gay, served as a commander in the Navy Supply Corps that fed, clothed, housed and transported cargo for the armed forces. He never revealed his sexual orientation while in the military, but he says some of his fellow troops knew.

“It was easier for me to hide things in the 70′s, and now everything is on Facebook. There’s Twitter. You put pictures out there, they follow you wherever you go,” explained Haas.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates oversees a three part plan on ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. The plan will overhaul applicable military personnel policy and benefits, provide training for top brass and military chaplains and formally instruct the troops on the ban’s repeal. Military officials in central Ohio confirmed that they have been holding training sessions at recruiting centers for their employees. They declined to provide details and refused a request for an interview.

Army Captain Scott Lee who works in military recruiting efforts in Columbus says regardless of the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, he will continue to quote “treat everyone with dignity and respect.”

Retired Navy Officer Haas says he also wants everyone to be treated equally.

“We just have to make sure that the military understands that no one is trying to put an agenda on them. Let everybody do their job,” Haas said.

Resistance to ending the ban on gays has been coming not from the troops, but from members of Congress. The House Armed Services Committee passed amendments last week that could delay repeal of the ban. The amendments if passed bar members of the armed forces and Department of Defense employees from assisting or performing same-sex marriages; and restate language within the Defense of Marriage Act to include members of the armed forces.

Zeke Stokes is Communications Director for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network or SLDN that provides legal services to those effected by Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

“These amendments to delay and derail repeal which is really what they would do are quite frankly nothing more than a partisan political attempt to interject the same sex marriage debate and other unrelated social issues into the defense spending bill where they quite frankly have no place,” Stokes said.

Stokes adds without benefits for spouses, gay, lesbian and bisexual service people will still face discrimination.

“If spouses aren’t recognized and or adopted children of those spouses or biological children of those spouses are not recognized, that could have a direct impact on my ability to access federal or military housing,” said Stokes.

Retired Navy Officer Haas has many questions.

“Are they going to recognize a male partner in the military as a partner, a spouse or not? That’s the question,” Haas said.

President Obama since taking office two years ago, has expanded federal rights and benefits for gays and lesbians who work as civilians within the government. How far those rights will extend to gays in the military has not been determined. Last week, civilian workers at the Defense Supply Center Columbus in Whitehall began to take on-line training in preparation for the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Under the repeal statute the ban will be overturned 60 days after the president, the secretary of defense, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all certify that repeal will not affect the recruitment, retention, or readiness of the U.S. military.

The crowd of 200 workers and veterans at a West Side Sears distribution center welcomed the first lady’s call on business and non profits to adopt veteran friendly policies.

“We’re calling on them to recruit and hire veterans and military spouses.”

Mrs. Obama suggests adoption of flexible work schedules and what she called “portable jobs” to help veterans and their spouses build seniority within a company.

“We see them trying to build seniority at their jobs but seeing that they have to keep starting over every time that they have to move to a new duty station.”

Columbus was the final stop in a four day tour dubbed “joining forces.”

There has been a lot of talk about the effects war has on troops post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, depression just to name a few. And we hear about the toll it takes on the spouse and the marriage. Seldom mentioned are the effects on the children. A study published this month in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics found children have more mental and behavioral problems when their parents go to war. Researchers found behavioral and stress disorders each increased by nearly 20 percent. And visits to mental health professionals increased by 11 percent.

Celina Dugas’ husband, Peter, is serving in Afghanistan. He’s in the Air Force and stationed at Bagram Airfield.

He’s been gone since May, it’s his third deployment. They have four children: Nicolas who’s eight, Devin who’s five and one-year-old twins.

Despite caring for infants, Dugas said this deployment has been the easiest. But easy is relative.

“It hasn’t gone without a lot of tears, and you know. He’s missed anniversaries and their birthdays. And you know he got a two week notice roughly when he found out he was leaving and from the time he had to be gone. We had things planned, and thought we were going to be doing this, that for the summer so everything pretty much changed. But we pretty much try to keep on trucking,” Dugas said.

Dugas said the first six or eight weeks were the toughest.

“I think the first probably one to two months where everyone’s kind of shaky and they cry and do things like that,” she said.

Although the study in “Pediatrics” indicated a significant increase in worry and conduct problems among children of deployed parents, Dugas said there has been little of that in her household. She said they try to stay busy with things like with piano lessons and Boy Scouts. But the older children, Nicolas and Devin, do miss out.

“I think for the most part they probably have suffered the most out of that, not having my husband around. And they ask for things like, like can we play the science set. Well that’s kind of Daddy’s job. I don’t know anything about that kind of stuff, so,” Dugas said.

Regina Shillinglaw is a clinical psychologist who specializes in deployment psychology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton. She helps train health providers who will work with service members.

Officials at Wright-Patt say it has not seen an increase in the number of children seeking mental health services. But Shillinglaw said the base offers various mental health services for children of deployed parents. And what it cannot offer, it gives referrals to private doctors.

“It can be stressful. Most of the time children adapt well and that’s what we see the majority of the time. But it can place a strain just in terms of an absent parent,” Shillinglaw said.

Shillinglaw said military families tend to be quite resilient. They’re used to moving a lot and to the other changes that come along with a military lifestyle. But she adds when it comes to deployment, research shows a child will adapt better when the person taking care of them is in a good mental place.

“The better the mental health of that person the better the child’s adjustment , so that’s an important finding in a sense that we can help support the stateside caregiver, whether that be the parent or not, as much as we can to help the child’s functioning,” she said.

Celina Dugas, whose husband is in Afghanistan, has maintained a positive attitude through the six-month-long deployment.

“He was upset, and so it was kind of one of those things where I just had to, for the first time be the one to say we’ll be OK, we’ll manage,” Dugas said.

Dugas said she’s continued to work and has tried to maintain contact with her husband. Her son, Nicolas, said that’s where technology helps.

“We talk to him on Skype, like where we see each other on like the computer. And talk about what happened. What do you tell your dad when you see him? Hey, Dad. I love you,” Nicolas said.

Andrea McBride, a Master Sergeant in the Air Force, is no stranger to deployment either. She had to leave her three girls, Michelle, Mara and Emily in 2007 when she went to Iraq. Her youngest child, Emily, was only two. She came up with a novel way to help her children.

“Mara, the middle one, she was probably a little more tore up about it. Michelle understood. So I put a jar and wrote little things that I would say to her in the jar. And I said when you miss Mommy you just pull out like a little love note kind of thing,” McBride said.

And Mara did go to the love note jar sometimes.

“When I missed her, and I wanted her to come back. Did you worry about Mom? Yeah.” While deployments are supposed to the tough part, and homecomings celebratory, McBride found her return put some strain on her youngest child, Emily.

“She was definitely a daddy’s girl at that time. She got used to him being around. So it took a while to get her back adjusted to me,” McBride said.

The study in “Pediatrics” notes deployments can affect future development. Researchers say similar effects have been shown in children whose parents divorce or are incarcerated. But Shillinglaw would not speculate on what the lasting impact the current wars will have on children like Emily and Nicolas.

“It’s too early in this situation to know how are these children who are you know two, five, ten and twelve years old, how are they going to be doing in ten, 15, 20 years,” she said.

Celina Dugas’ husband is expected back from Afghanistan in early December just in time for his son’s sixth birthday. Andrea McBride said she’s looking to deploy to Afghanistan sometime next year.

When the Ohio Army National Guard’s 585th Military Police Company entered the packed Marysville high school gymnasium, families and friends in the bleachers burst into wild applause.

During the ceremony which is known as the Call to Duty, 170 uniformed Guardsmen and Guardswomen listened to their commanders. And they heard from politicians, including Congresswoman, Mary Jo Kilroy.

“And I want to tell the members of the 585 military police company how much I admire and respect you; admire you for your patriotism and love of country; your sense of duty, your courage, your strength, your determination,” Kilroy said. They also heard from Ohio’s Adjutant General Gregory Wayt who gave a charge to the leaders of the 585th:

“I give them two missions. Number 1, take care of every soldier; Number 2, bring back every soldier right here one year from now,” Wayt said.

There’s a bit of irony in the call-up of the 585th. These 170 Ohioans will be arriving in Iraq as some 12,000 U.S. troops begin returning to the U.S., part of the so-called drawdown of American forces. Even though Staff Sergeant Jeremy Dennison is leaving behind a wife and three sons, he says he understands the need to be in Iraq.

“Even though they’re bringing the numbers down, there are still troops that have to be rotated out,” Dennison said. “Just like a change of shift at work. Even though they’re drawing down the numbers there are still certain places that have to be manned and you just can’t leave the same people there. We’re just going over there until it’s time for everybody to finish and leave.”

Sgt. Dennison has already been deployed overseas twice. Another member of the 585th is Keith Wade, II, who’s already served in Afghanistan. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wade were waiting to greet their son after the ceremony.

“My son will be deploying with the 585th,” Mrs. Wade said. “I’ve been through this once before. It does not get any easier. But I’m very proud of him and I’m his number one cheerleader.”

The Guardsman’s father says he’s not worried about his son’s safety.

“He’s courageous,” Wade says. “He’ll do what he wants to do and he’ll do what he has to do.”

The last combat troops are due to return to the U.S. in another 12 months though there will still be thousands of U.S. troops stationed in Iraq for years. The drawdown worries the elder Wade who served 26 years in the Army.

“They’re cutting down the forces and they shouldn’t be. We should stay strong in all the world but I figure it is a sign of weakness if you start pulling your troops back, so no, I don’t agree with the pull down of the troops,” Wade said.

But after additional training at Fort Dix in New Jersey, the 585th Military Police Company will arrive in Iraq. Their mission is to help train members of the Iraqi police force.