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You'd expect nothing less from a $170 billion organization that is tasked with being ready for global war at a moment's notice.

• rxhernandez 9y ago
  That number doesn't look to be within 2 orders of magnitude of a lowball estimate.
  • selectodude 9y ago
    $17 trillion seems off too.
    • nielsole 9y ago
      In 2010 it was 680 bn $ for the entire defense budget. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/64377-senate-to-vote-on-defense-bill# http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/64377-senate-to-vote-on-d..., 170 for Air Force seems about right
      • MagnumOpus 9y ago
        $170bn is just the annual inflow of resources. The air force is easily a 3-trillion dollar organisation - that's what it would cost to rebuild machinery, equipment and know-how over decades if it wouldn't exist.
    • rxhernandez 9y ago
      Not for their total worth; maybe for their yearly budget that might be out of place.