Is there no good news in the world? There's precious little in this thread.

[Prudence]

I suspect that "waste and top heavy spending" plague the DoD* as well. From the perspective of some vets, cuts are rationalized as necessary to fund current military efforts.

(I had best get off my soapbox on this issue now before I launch in tirades about people with delayed diagnoses of MS following the first Gulf War who are ineligible for treatment because the diagnosis came too long after the war, but MS takes a while to show up and looks like other things when it does so that's actually normal and I really need to stop now.)

*Or the federal acronym of your choosing.