Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Army is grappling with a sudden budget crunch and scrambling to slash training costs across broad swaths of the force, according to internal documents reviewed by ABC News and multiple U.S. officials.

The move is to make up for a shortfall of some $4 billion to $6 billion, according to one of the officials, as the service has drastically expanded its operational footprint at home and abroad.

The cuts, which range from elite schools to unit-level training, have triggered a wave of abrupt cancellations and unusually aggressive spending scrutiny months before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.

The service's multibillion-dollar shortfall is the product of a widening set of operational demands and rising costs across the force.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/army-cuts-training-short-billions-091336989.html

Just what you want to cut in war time.

[Cheezoholic]

1. Maybe Lobster's can serve ;) n/t

[chowder66]

2. The biggest military budget in the world! So where the fuck is all the money going?

And weren't we having issues recruiting?

[harumph]

3. Astute question. It's sure as fuck not going to the service members.

Or their families or their healthcare.

[haele]

4. Yup.

Right now, the money is going to Acquisition. Primarily munitions, recomissioning/repairs and other forward support services.
Because that's where the money goes when the shooting starts and the "consumables" start getting consumed.
Modernization Engineering, Quality Assurance, Training and Maintenance services gets pushed to the side, even though training and modernization, along with Quality Assurance is desperately needed.

[Prairie Gates]

7. The military budget is socialism on a large scale

The fact is that capitalism cannot sustain a large modern society, so the government has to collect and redistribute money, in our case funneling it into various useless industries like defense. We pump hundreds of billions of government hand-outs into defense-centric communities every year and pretend that it is not pure socialist government support by convincing ourselves that these useless baubles are needed for "security." It's a lie, of course. Ideologically, we're supposed to "hate" socialism, and, indeed, they seem to hate it more the more they rely on it (military towns, suburbs heavily reliant on military spending, etc.)!

[haele]

8. Lol- that's my go to when the local Flag Wearer starts screaming about Socialism...

"Hey, you support the military, don't you?"
"Yea, F****yeah! Rah, rah, support the troops and their bang, bangs protecting the Homeland!"
"You do know it's one of the largest truly efficient Socialist organizations in the world?"
"No-o-o-ooooo!"

[GCG]

5. Where is the money going?

That's a question that the Pentagon hasn't been able to provide a satisfactory answer for in years.

In the last 8 years the Defense Department has failed every audit, and last year the comptroller stated that it would pass an audit by 2028!

[chowder66]

10. Yep I was thinking about that as well.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

11. Recruitment was up

2025 was the best year in the last 15 years apparently and as of earlier this year the trend was holding. No idea if the war has affected numbers yet.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Isn't it the job of the Secretary of Defense to make sure that the budget is being held to

And, moreover, don't we give these people $1 trillion A YEAR to get their shit together???

[Bobstandard]

9. Plenty for complex suddenly irrelevant weapons systems systems

The military industrial complex has been feeding so hard on the bloated, unmanageable military budget that there’s nothing left for actual war fighter training.

Between news like this and Trump’s team we’re more at risk today than we have ever been.

Final note, Trump is such a narcissistic idiot that you know he thinks it’s his destiny and duty to use a nuclear weapon. And there are no adults around to stop him. Every time I think things can’t get worse I remember Trump and the ‘nuclear football’.