The money is needed for sensitivity training.
so Russia can have massive parades, we can’t even have bands. More examples of a Muslim President being a hater of his own country.
An Army band would play every time we sailed in or out of Yokohama in the 1950s. I wonder where all those MSTS ships are today ?
Somewhat tangential but a President Trump can and probably will “retire” all the generals and admirals Zero promoted. The military may just be the easiest way to end “ the fundamental transformation.”. One assumes the current crop of perfumed princes should be growing anxious.
How far should we go to support Trump in this? Well, I would even be willing to put the uniform back on if they have trouble finding conservatives to help out. Somehow I doubt Trump would have to look for help in this matter that he would ever need my help but I am willing to make the sacrifice.
The balls and the dances ARE the social events that make the hardships worth going through for years.
The military “pomp and circumstance” have - sice the Babylonian era, the Greeks and Romans, the middle ages and the Napoleonic wars, been what builds the social “attitude” and morale behind the armed forces between the troops and the officers and their wives behind them..
The bands are musician welfare
“The roughly $500 million that the Defense Department spends annually on bands”
Well, that may help to offset the expense of the multitudinous Obummer vacations, though I doubt it would also cover Moochelle’s millionaire-and-billionaire type wardrobe.
Cut back the roughly $500 million that the Defense Department.
Like the couldn’t find cuts in illegal aliens party package treats.
This is yet another example of what budget cuts are doing to the military.
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And yet another example of the insanity in the U.S. congress. If they want to cut spending then how about starting with some of the expensive perks and benefits that the congress get?
They finally discovered the power of the purse strings??
do the bands charge for playing???Defund PBS & NPR first!!!!
A half a billion dollars? That much?
I bet there's a clause in there that allows The President's Own to still play at the White House.
They are not doing away with the bands entirely, just limiting where they can play at. So at the end of the day just how much of that $500 million are they really saving?
Deep sigh and shaking my head here...so glad I’m retired and no longer have to deal with the PC BS. I do not encourage anyone to serve in the military nowadays, I have to clamp my mouth closed about my opinions to my active duty stepson, and I am totally not in favor of women being drafted ( I volunteered to serve, I knew what I was going to be doing for my job, and my job was hospital admin, not infantry!)—so now I add the worry over my teen daughter being drafted to the other worries I have as a mother! We are a military family, we volunteered to serve: me, my husband, my dad, his dad, his stepdad, our youngest son, my BIL, my niece’s husband, and so on. Morale is being beaten out of our service members. And after that military service, then we fight the VA for justly earned and well deserved benefits ( my dad exposed to Agent Orange, my BIL and niece’s husband PTSD from wartime activity, my husband exposed to asbestos in the Navy now dealing with mesothelioma... How much we have all given, how much we love our country. Is the mere pleasure of listening to a military band at a mandatory fun social event now too much to expect? Add that to the lousy commissaries overseas, the alcohol ban currently imposed on Navy service members and their spouses in Japan, the numerous deployments to hellholes and the burdens of the families, the diversity push, the rainbow flags, the ban on christianity, and every other insane policy running rampant—when will we see the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
The members of the band are getting paid the same whether they are performing, field training, or just plain rehearsing. Generally, dinners and dances are done by smaller ensembles, not the whole band. I don’t see where this saves much money, except maybe travel expenses.
But they voted to allow illegal aliens to join the military which has always been illegal until now.
common sense.