Penny wise, pound foolish

Between costs associated with Iran and various hijinks in Latin America, as well as shelling out $1.1 billion dollars (and counting!) for National Guard troops to stand around DC Metro stations, bored and scrolling their smart phones, the Army is facing a budget shortfall of something like six billion bucks.

So they're slashing training costs to the bone for the rest of the fiscal year because that's not important for "lethality", I guess.

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