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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Couple of things.
Our military has always, always been poorly equiped. My experience supports this and I believe others support this, hell I think history supports this.
I don't see how you can reduce the Navy or the Air Force when you have a country with such large airspace and coast. Both are needed for patrol and saftey (rescue). We havn't even touched the Coast Guard yet, those poor #######s really are the red headed step child of funding.
I don't have the answer, beyond funding.
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Yeah, kind of depressing. More funding likely won't come as that means more taxes or cutting something else. In my opinion there the funding should be directed at one of the branches for 5 year rotations for procurement. Army, you've got 5 years to get the kit you need, then you wait 10 til your next turn kind of thing. I think you'd be able to keep all the branches fairly modern. There would obviously be training/ maintenance budgets for the other two while they wait for their turn for procurement. There would have to be the ability to direct money to a certain branch in case of emergency.