[PapaBear3625]

Among its other findings, the report showed that the Defense Department was paying just over 1 million contractors, civilian employees and uniformed personnel to fill back-office jobs. That number nearly matches the amount of active duty troops — 1.3 million, the lowest since 1940.

While I'm not sure of the need for a million of them, I see nothing wrong with using civilians and contractors for office work.

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I am currently a contractor for DoD, doing the same kind of work that I did until I retired about 11 months ago.

I (and others) retired because the Obama administration directed that the Army downsize. However the work that I did still needed to be done. So they hired me (and others) a retired officer, to work two cubicles down from where I worked on active duty.

Most contractors are doing useful work, that troops are no longer available to do. However, I can easily see $125M in waste because DoD processes are very bureaucratic and inefficient.