The Army has canceled dozens of medical training courses as the service moves to manage a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall that is rippling across the force, according to multiple U.S. officials and internal documents reviewed by ABC News.
At least 34 medical-related courses have been canceled during the second half of the Pentagon’s fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, according to the documents.
The cuts come from the Army Medical Center of Excellence, the service’s hub for its medical training, headquartered at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Those cuts come as commanders are being told to closely scrutinize their spending as the service faces ballooning operational costs, including those related to the war in Iran and skyrocketing fuel costs.
The trick is that a lot of the so called military spending is only officially military releated. In reality it’s support for the industry to keep contracts running that make no sense and are far from economically viable.
So like the interest on the national debt, we just have to keep paying?
This country has gotten really weak at figuring out how to question government spending constructively.
The US got lazy because the leading role of the dollar in global finances actually made it so much easier for them than for anyone else to run on debt without actually paying that much.
Could they still have spend the money more efficiently? Sure, but some waste in a system that naturally ran better than anyone elses public finances wasn’t much of a problem.
The US keeping up current foreign policies and making former long-term allies divest from the US and from the dollar as the de facto global currency is what weakens the US at an incredible pace.