After reading many of your posts, I believe you have "issues." Your animosity towards the military runs deeper than a concern over discretionary spending. I don't know if you feel you were burned in your career, a contract, or whatever. But I hope you get over it.
“Your animosity towards the military runs deeper than a concern over discretionary spending.”
You represent the error in thinking - probably deliberate in your case. You think if one does not participate in hyperbole and hysteria regarding minor reductions in military spending representing “gutting” that somehow you are against the military and the common soldier.
Your foray into armchair psychology is best turned towards yourself. Why would you accept obvious glaring lies by the military bureaucracy and supposed “conservatives”? The first one you re-tell is the figment of the “$500B cut”, over 10 years, of course. Then you claimed “2,000,000 jobs could be lost”, and then you claim that somehow General officers on the JCS are “thinking of quitting” over this complete farce of a spending reduction.
How deluded must you be to parrot this ridiculous drivel?
Further, what you fail to recognize, even though I told you, is that honesty in budgeting and capability will PRESERVE military capability for the long-term. Lying and hyperbole now only represents “crying wolf” - so when the time comes for significant cuts our armed services will have some remaining credibility when they object to them.