Marines scour a Hawaiian beach in January, seeking evidence of a midair collision between two Marine choppers that killed 12. Coast Guard photo / Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read / via Reuters
Mark Thompson, Time: Is Tighter Pentagon Spending Killing Troops?
Reduced training leads to increased fatalities, experts maintain
Ever since Congress and the White House put caps on federal spending starting in 2013, there have been calls to lift them for the Pentagon. The military’s pain has so become acute, both lawmakers and generals are now warning the cuts could kill more American troops in wartime—and already are killing more in peacetime, because of a lack of training.
“Our nation will deploy young Americans into battle without sufficient training or equipment to fight a war that will take longer, be larger, cost more and ultimately claim more American lives than it otherwise would have,” Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs the armed services committee, said Thursday.
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WNU Editor: With a U.S. Federal debt that is expected to hit $20 trillion at the end of this year .... tighter Pentagon spending is going top be the norm .... even if (sadly) it ends up killing U.S. soldiers.
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And more propaganda.
The CO of the Marine Air unit, was relieved of command a few weeks before the crash, for running a "parade unit" and not keeping up readiness and training standards.
The new CO scheduled and ran a night training op, that his unit was no longer qualified or trained to do.
The "budget" was never the issue, and still isn't.
But of course, Politicians, the Press, the Pentagon and the MIC will milk this preventable tragedy for every additional penny they can milk out if US Taxpayers.
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