Personnel. You need to understand that the US military is the largest single employer in the United States, with around 2 million people directly getting their bills paid by it - either as defense contractors or active duty.
For US budget numbers it is worth noting that the US has to fold healthcare into its spending on both DoD employees/active/reserves and that contractor prices all include healthcare per employee. The average family plan in the US is $22,400, equivalent to a full third of the median pre-tax income. When numbers look big, recall that you can cut more than an 8th off that for healthcare that would be covered elsewhere by most other countries.
US healthcare spending is a whopping 18.4% of GDP, soon to be 20%, about 4+-2+ times other developed nations. This inflates all government spending since costs are massively higher. The US actually spends more public/government funds on healthcare / GDP than most rich nations with universal healthcare anyhow, then more than doubles that with private funding. Employers cover most of that, meaning a low wage employee making $20 per hour can actually cost 50+% more than that due to healthcare.
Total DoD funding is extremely misleading if you don't also cut out Boomer gibs and veteran health. The VA alone is $320 billion.
It's pretty bad when you consider that life expectancy is worse than Cuba or Qatar and even richgays have bad outcomes compared to foreign richgays.
>You need to understand that the US military is the largest single employer in the United States
For US budget numbers it is worth noting that the US has to fold healthcare into its spending on both DoD employees/active/reserves and that contractor prices all include healthcare per employee. The average family plan in the US is $22,400, equivalent to a full third of the median pre-tax income. When numbers look big, recall that you can cut more than an 8th off that for healthcare that would be covered elsewhere by most other countries.
US healthcare spending is a whopping 18.4% of GDP, soon to be 20%, about 4+-2+ times other developed nations. This inflates all government spending since costs are massively higher. The US actually spends more public/government funds on healthcare / GDP than most rich nations with universal healthcare anyhow, then more than doubles that with private funding. Employers cover most of that, meaning a low wage employee making $20 per hour can actually cost 50+% more than that due to healthcare.
Total DoD funding is extremely misleading if you don't also cut out Boomer gibs and veteran health. The VA alone is $320 billion.
It's pretty bad when you consider that life expectancy is worse than Cuba or Qatar and even richgays have bad outcomes compared to foreign richgays.
Yeah but it’s still disproportionately spending less. For comparison to their 6% slice of the budget, they have 10% of the total personnel- and the Marine Corps has proportionally far more active duty and fewer reservists, so they’re spending less money on troops who are doing more work
This. Marines are constantly being used in operations while army slugs collect welfare. Maybe it's just the mentality of Marines to seek out suffering and misery in every possible way.
Personnel by an enormous margin, which includes veterans benefits and benefits for relatives. O&M is the second biggest part. The US has become incredibly inefficient with its defense budget since the end of the Cold War. Personnel costs top $240,000 per active service member, which is insane.
Probably supplies and maintenance.
Personnel. You need to understand that the US military is the largest single employer in the United States, with around 2 million people directly getting their bills paid by it - either as defense contractors or active duty.
I'm pretty sure monthly squadron maintenance costs a lot more than the entire annual salary of everyone working at the base combined
>You need to understand that the US military is the largest single employer in the United States
No, That would be Walmart
If you count reserves and civilians who work directly for the DoD in their civil service it is 2.87 million.
DoD isn't the same as the military, Coast Guard is not part of the DoD
>Coast Guard is not part of the DoD
>the only genuinely defensive branch of the armed forces
>not part of the Department of Defense
Oh the ironing.
>The US Military
>Single employer
no, the US retail, delivery, and consumption industries are the largest single employer
dude, corporate mergers are a problem, but there are multiple companies and thus multiple employers in those sectors
Most of it goes to personnel for hormone therapy and racial sensitivity training
THE UTMOST MAJORITY OF IT GOES STRAIGHT INTO MY BELLY
AAAARGH GAAAARGH
For US budget numbers it is worth noting that the US has to fold healthcare into its spending on both DoD employees/active/reserves and that contractor prices all include healthcare per employee. The average family plan in the US is $22,400, equivalent to a full third of the median pre-tax income. When numbers look big, recall that you can cut more than an 8th off that for healthcare that would be covered elsewhere by most other countries.
US healthcare spending is a whopping 18.4% of GDP, soon to be 20%, about 4+-2+ times other developed nations. This inflates all government spending since costs are massively higher. The US actually spends more public/government funds on healthcare / GDP than most rich nations with universal healthcare anyhow, then more than doubles that with private funding. Employers cover most of that, meaning a low wage employee making $20 per hour can actually cost 50+% more than that due to healthcare.
Total DoD funding is extremely misleading if you don't also cut out Boomer gibs and veteran health. The VA alone is $320 billion.
It's pretty bad when you consider that life expectancy is worse than Cuba or Qatar and even richgays have bad outcomes compared to foreign richgays.
>that Marine Corps slice
kek they really do get shit on and fricked over don't they?
aren't they the smallest branch?
No, the Coast Guard is
Not DoD, they don’t count
Samegay
'Fraid not.
Yeah but it’s still disproportionately spending less. For comparison to their 6% slice of the budget, they have 10% of the total personnel- and the Marine Corps has proportionally far more active duty and fewer reservists, so they’re spending less money on troops who are doing more work
This. Marines are constantly being used in operations while army slugs collect welfare. Maybe it's just the mentality of Marines to seek out suffering and misery in every possible way.
Personnel by far.
Wages, pensions, food, healthcare, buildings, power, water, etc.
At least for the Army it’s the most expensive part.
Personnel by an enormous margin, which includes veterans benefits and benefits for relatives. O&M is the second biggest part. The US has become incredibly inefficient with its defense budget since the end of the Cold War. Personnel costs top $240,000 per active service member, which is insane.
Black budget DUMBs