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Originally posted by seretogis
I find that incredibly hard to believe, considering that we have billion-dollar aircraft.
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Granted this is FY02, but this gives you an idea:
According to Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dov Zakheim, the DOD budget is broken up as follows:
-- Procurement, $61.6 billion;
-- Operations and maintenance, $125.7 billion;
-- Research and development, $47.4 billion;
-- Military personnel, $82.3 billion; and
-- Other, $10.6 billion.
So about 25 percent of the budget is manpower.