This is nothing new. It’s always been like this, whether Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines.
Oh, I know, first hand. I served in the NAVY in the early 90’s. Got a front row seat to how the federal govt wastes our money.
My favorite was at the end of the fiscal year my ship would go 55 miles off the coast of San Diego to pump all of our perfectly good Oil and Jet fuel overboard so we could keep our allotment for the next fiscal year. Brand new furniture and engine parts would also go over the side. Was too much of a pain to send it back to where it came from.
Some decades ago, when I worked for a state university, I was ordered to re-do a budget I had prepared in order to spend more money, quite a bit more, actually. We needed to spend as much as the previous fiscal.
It didn't matter what I bought, it just needed to cost a lot and then of course a fictional justification.