500 million worth goes missing says Pentagon

[THCDDM4]

Just a drop in the bucket compared to the hardware we've given to our enemies in the last few years.

Nothing to worry about though; King Obama has things under control

[Vandal]

$500 million; that could buy 3 maybe 4 of the money pit aircraft that is the F-35 JSF. Our gov't has no idea how to purchase things or manage our money.

[Coal Dragger]

As much as I hate to say it, I think the DoD needs to see some massive budget cuts in the next few years. They are collectively extremely careless with tax payer money.

[MountainRaven]

As much as I hate to say it, I think the DoD needs to see some massive budget cuts in the next few years. They are collectively extremely careless with tax payer money.

What I think the DoD really needs is better fiscal oversight more than anything.

You could cut the DoD's budget as much as you want, all they're going to do is talk about how they can't do their mission on such a shoestring budget, and then prove it by cutting everybody in a combat MOS until the military is nothing but a bureaucracy for redistributing money from the federal government to defense contractors in the states of the most influential and powerful Congresscritters.

I bet if we cut our military spending to the NATO mandated minimum of 2% of GDP (vice our current 4-5%) with strong oversight to ensure that what needs money gets money (and not what simply wants money because it benefits the jobs of the constituents of some Congresscritter), we could maintain very nearly the same if not exactly the same military readiness we already have.