Originally Posted by rickair7777

That's true, but that occurs at the highest levels of corruption (congress and their industry patrons). Senior military leaders may be asleep at the switch, but that's a natural consequence of rotating the boss every three years on a 30-year procurement project.

As far as rank-and-file military...the taxpayers already get way more than their money's worth. Anybody with significant active duty experience or desert-time can tell you that.

The high-level waste fraud and abuse is a natural consequence of our political system, has nothing to do with the folks at the pointy end...don't confuse the two. That would be unjust.