What a phony argument. Nice try at playing on emotions. 800,000 civilian Department of Defense employees is still the equivalent of 40 Divisions of Soldiers. When I signed up, I didn’t see anything about DOD being responsible for providing me with a job for life. The United States military exists to prevent, fight and win our wars. It’s not an employment agency. That said, I think the DOD civilians should be about the last people cut from Federal employment. How do the DOD civilians vote? Do the majority of them vote Democrat or Republican? I was a DOD civilian employee at one time. My experience was that most of them vote Democrat. Democrats don’t like the military. I can understand people voting in their self-interest, but the DOD civilian employees don’t seem to follow that.
There is nothing "phony" about those numbers.
45% of all DoD civilians are veterans.
The military is 18% of the budget, yet it must take 50% of the Sequestration cuts.
63% of all Federal spending is on Entitlements (TANF, Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc), and those are exempt from Sequestration.
The military has already been cut by $487 Billion (over ten years) starting 2 years ago, and on top of the Continuing Resolution, both Congress and the President are "piling on" the military (which is a Constitutional agency).
The United States military exists to prevent, fight and win our wars. It’s not an employment agency.
I have news for you - we won WW II by both fighting and employing people. We spent 39% of GDP during WW II to develop and manufacture weapons, employ doctors and nurses, technicians, maintenance professionals, logisticians, and on and on. This is how you win wars, and how you build a strong military.
I was a DOD civilian employee at one time. My experience was that most of them vote Democrat.
Even if I were to believe your anecdotal "evidence" - for every Democrat you cite I can cite a Republican. But even that does not seem to matter anymore, because the Republican leadership has chosen to betray the US military in the same vein that the Democrats have chosen.