The Pentagon found $300 million....

I’m Papa Penguin and this is your Military Minute.

Men, the Pentagon has managed to come up with an extra $300 million in cost savings from contracts. How should we spend the money?

Smith: Uh, sir…that’s not extra money. It reduced cost for stuff we already bought.

Gen: Dammit smith, I asked for solutions not observational fact.

Jones: How about we fix some of the deferred maintenance issues on the barracks? I know there’s a huge backlog but this would be a good start.

Gen: What the hell Jones? You are supposed to be helping me out here. What do substandard barracks have to do with anything? Garvin, what do you have?

Garvin: Sir, I say we convert it to singles and spread it around to the young single mothers working their way through college by dancing on a pole at the fine institutions off post!

Gen: You know, that’s a good start Smith. I think I’ve got it. We’ll send it to Ukraine.

Smith: Isn’t that the same thing?

That’s right,we’re sending $300 million more to Ukraine despite our munition stockpiles being depleted to the tune of $10 billion.

They’re chopping staffing for the Army and the Air Force because they couldn’t recruit enough bodies. And the zoomies are dropping 250 aircraft on top of that. The Marine Corps is getting rid of tanks and artillery. What do we need $10 billion in munitions for?

The old Charlotte Keys slogan “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came” may become an actual terrifying reality.

Oh well. Onward to AI weapons! That’ll work out better.

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/12/pentagon-give-ukraine-300-million-weapons-even-it-lacks-funds-replenish-us-stockpile.html

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