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.
Tell your fellow DOD employees to vote Republican. The people who vote Democrat almost unanimously think that the Democrat party will take care of them. The hard truth is that there’s only so much sugar for them to hand out. The sugar bowl is getting empty. I’m not a big Republican, but it seems like they understand that the sugar bowl has to be filled once in awhile. The Democrats just empty the bowl and blame the Republicans. And if you think civilians won WWII, then go to the American graveyards in Europe and see how many civilians are buried there.