Exactly. Most DOD civilians employees are former military.
Of course, the left doesn’t mind cutting a work force that did not vote for it. It’s sort of like killing two birds with one stone.
The whole idea is to defund the right (deprive them of tax dollars while the left gets gets more and more tax dollars in such BS operations as 0bama-Care, welfare, food stamps, ObamaFones, the EEOC and Department of Education) and steal (via taxes) from the right. And the right skews heavily to being older white men in the productive private sector