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This but unironically. The 355 ship navy and 386 squadron air force won't build themselves. All those HIMARS, NASAMS, Stingers, Javelins, and counter battery ra
by Victerius 4y ago
This but unironically. The 355 ship navy and 386 squadron air force won't build themselves. All those HIMARS, NASAMS, Stingers, Javelins, and counter battery radars we sent to Ukraine also need to be replenished.
- walljm 4y agoThe vast majority of our defense spending is Salaries for US Service Men and Women. And they are under paid in many cases. Just bumping the salary of the bottom ranks would likely shift the spending ratio. (you can verify this by digging into the monthly treasury statements: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/monthly-treasury-statement/summary-of-receipts-outlays-and-the-deficit-surplus-of-the-u-s-government https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/monthly-treasury-st...)
- anotherman554 4y agoCan you elaborate? What you wrote seems to contradict this source: "Roughly one-quarter of the Department of Defense’s budget is for military personnel." https://www.cbo.gov/topics/defense-and-national-security/military-personnel https://www.cbo.gov/topics/defense-and-national-security/mil...
- walljm 4y agoI looked closer, and it seems my memory is either bad or the levels have changed since I last dug into those numbers. In either case, thanks for checking those numbers!