Congress had no problem agreeing cut our military by $487 Billion over ten years beginning in 2010, and again with Sequestration by $650 Billion over ten years.
Training is gutted, tuition assistance for our heroes was only re-instated yesterday via emergency funding, Operations and Maintenance money is short 40-60% across the services, 750,000 DoD civilians (from nurses to maintainers) are about to be furloughed, flying hours for all services have been cut to the bone, training for Army Brigade Combat Teams has been slashed 80%, and depot maintenance for all services is at a stand still.
But, Congress is allowing TSA to spend over $50 million on new uniforms and Homeland Security to by MRAP vehicles, weapons, and billions of rounds of ammunition.
