12-06-2016, 02:00 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Originally Posted by donquixote99
No, that would be other waste, money spent by contractors, and so comes from procurement dollars, and so is built into the costs of airplanes and ships and stuff. This particular 125 B. is exclusive of procurement spending--it's part of the Pentagon's own operating cost and overhead.
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With a strong emphasis on the size of the Pentagon's support-service contractor workforce. From the article:
The data showed that the Defense Department was paying a staggering number of people — 1,014,000 contractors, civilians and uniformed personnel — to fill back-office jobs far from the front lines. That workforce supports 1.3 million troops on active duty, the fewest since 1940.
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