[Pentagon Leatherneck]

"What a farce....They could get rid of 10% of these employees and no one would notice." Why do I suspect you have absolutely no data or real information to back up that claim? What are you: a low-information voter? TC

[Chainmail]

You got that right: another "conservative" that has probably never served in uniform, has no idea how our defense works, could care less what will happen to our country's future if we lose critical capabilities. Those of us who have served and then have worked within the defense system afterward know just how thin an edge there is between keeping all those wonderful people in every other country slightly behind us in capabilities or learning how to be one of their provinces.

Really sick of the Ron Paul wing of the head-in-the-sand conservatives.

[RobbyS]

Well, anecdotally, the assertion stands up. In every department there are redundant employees. Many more just take all their sick days during the year.