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“Nobody wants less,” Barrett continued. “But if we don’t slow the growth of our hard-earned generous compensation/benefit entitlements that we have enjoyed over the past decade, we don’t have sufficient dollars for what we need — investment in our warfighting capabilities and our wonderful Marine and family care programs.”

This guy is digging a deeper hole. He can't be that stupid so he must be spewing this nonsense on purpose. Well he is in a prominent position in the heirarchy of beast.mil. He follows the orders and agenda of the one who pays him.

The money for "what we need" is systemically and routinely skimmed and scraped off though multiple levels of graft and corruption, but hey pal don't look there and fix the nature of the beast, just find more cash in places where the money actually belongs, and start scavaging and cutting under the usual pretext of "saving money".

The DoD's BS about "saving money" or "cutting costs" or "streamlining" is merely a thinly veiled code for diverting those funds into more desirable programs and pockets. Ecowacko money pits, perversion support and tolerance reeducation, "fixing" stuff that isn't broken so there's always a make work project to repair the inevitable damage and dysfunction, things like that. And perpetual uniform changes, can't leave that one out, lol.