The next big battle is concerning the fattest hog of all, the Pentagon.
It could be a big brouhaha brewing between the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the slicing and dicing DOGE audit team, specifically Tom Krause. Sec. Hegseth will complain that DOGE is going too far and their cuts are jeopardizing the lives of the men and women in uniform.
Elon and his housecleaning crew will say, the cuts have to be painful because we are $36 Trillion in debt. Unless we get control of our spending, hyperinflation is right around the corner. The entire American economy will collapse unless we put an end to the chronic fraud, waste and abuse along with unbridled spending.
The Pentagon is famous for piss-poor accounting and incredible amounts of in-your-face fraud, and their policies and strategy also must be called into question.
THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER
Part of making our government more efficient is to no longer waste money on obsolete programs and strategies.
One of the top three expenditures for the U.S. Treasury is the military. Part of the problem is the fact the Pentagon is disinterested in properly tracking the funds they’re allotted from Congress.
This is why $824 Billion is still remains unaccounted for in just last year’s budget alone. All that waste, and flag-officers still get to keep their jobs. Make it make sense.
We suggest a change in thinking. Much of the waste in the military can be found in naval aviation. The “aircraft carrier” is a dinosaur which should have gone extinct a long time ago. Unfortunately, tradition has blinded naval officers from making any change.
Thirty-four (34) years ago at the beginning of Desert Storm, seven B-52s from Louisiana took off for a bombing raid in Kuwait. The squadron of B-52s flew 35 hours straight and 15,000 miles (there and back) on the longest bombing raid in history.
Combine this ability with our ability to put a missile virtually anywhere in the world, plus or minus two feet from intended target and you have an incredible power to project force abroad. We didn’t have these abilities during WWII and the aircraft carrier was an important tool for the Defense Department, but times have changed.
America can project power abroad without the use of the archaic aircraft-carrier platform. For example: aircraft carriers played a very limited role in Desert Storm. Control of the skies was mainly an Air Force show. While the Navy was on the sidelines, the Air Force decimated the Iraqi Army and so-called Iraqi Air Force.
In addition to the exorbitant cost of maintaining aircraft carriers is their extreme vulnerability. Even a low-yield nuclear missile that detonates anywhere near an aircraft carrier will instantly destroy its fighting capability along with all her escort ships.
In other words, the entire battle group will be destroyed or effectively neutralized as a threat from even getting close to your target with a nuclear weapon.
Aside from the debilitating blast and associated heat and shockwave is the radiation which will fry 85-100% of the electronics on ships and aircraft from the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) connected with a nuclear detonation.
A missile with a nuclear warhead doesn’t have to be a direct hit to still destroy the target. A nuclear detonation only needs a proximity within a mile or two.
In addition to the EMP damage, the aircraft carrier will likely roll over from a Tsunami created by the tremendous pressure of a nuclear blast. An aircraft carrier by design is very top-heavy and therefore susceptible to rolling over.
Third-world North Korea could easily annihilate approaching carrier battle groups even with sloppy targeting. As their targeting improves, so to does their lethality.
Technological advances since WWII have made the aircraft carrier an easy target much in the same way the invention of the airplane made the Japanese battleship Yamato a sitting duck in April 1945. Her 18″ guns were no match for 300 American aircraft.
America has eleven (11) aircraft carriers, each carrying 80+ aircraft and 4,500 personnel. It’s breathtaking to tabulate all the money it takes to operate just a single aircraft carrier in maintenance, manpower, fuel, weapons, support ships, aircraft, training of pilots, etc., etc.
The dumping of jet fuel to get down to landing weight is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.
Billions of gallons of jet fuel have been dumped over the ocean. And, few Americans know anything about it. It’s high time we recognized the horrible waste of precious fuel associated with flying off aircraft carriers. It’s a waste of money and causes damage to the environment.
The aircraft-carrier should have been relegated to the dustbin of history decades ago. To build an aircraft carrier and operate it, is just jaw-droppingly expensive. America no longer needs them to protect herself.
Keep in mind that no matter where a U.S. submarine is located on the globe, its missiles can fly to targets nearly anywhere on the earth’s surface. We no longer need the aircraft carrier for protection. And quite honestly, we can no longer afford them either.
It’s stupid to continually invest in outdated and wasteful military programs and strategies. And please don’t get us started about fraud.
Whoops too late…
MILITARY RESERVE SYSTEM IS A LEACH,
DRAINING THE LIFE BLOOD FROM THE DEFENSE BUDGET
Years ago Navy Chief Petty Officer Michael Tufariello received orders from New York to Naval Air Station Dallas, Texas. He is a highly decorated combat veteran from Vietnam who transitioned into the reserve Navy, helping to administrate the running of a major reserve naval base.
In New York, the Navy designated Michael as the “Navy Shore Sailor of the Year” for his outstanding management of the financial records on a naval reserve base. The called him “Chief Tuff” because he was once a prize fighter who fought in Madison Square Garden.
Others called him “Mr. By-the-Book,” because he could quote you chapter and verse out of any of the regulations manuals, especially the PAYPERSMAN (Pay Personnel Manual). His job was to ensure that government money was fairly dispensed in accordance with regulatory statutes.
The naval officers at Naval Air Station Dallas, Texas frankly could give a damn. They were already allowing reserve officers to fraudulently log in from home so they could rack up points for retirement. Even though it’s a mild form of fraud… it’s fraud none-the-less.
Every one of them should have been held accountable, including the enablers who allowed the fraudulent conduct. But that’s not what happened.
Upon arriving in Dallas, Chief Tufariello applied the same excellent work ethic that made him honored and revered at his last command. Unfortunately, NAS Dallas would have none of it. In that regard, the naval base was just like Washington. They didn’t care if the books balanced.
Tufariello discovered massive payroll fraud. The command was illegally paying thousands of reservists for work they never did resulting in millions of dollars of payroll fraud. Once Tufariello brought it to the attention of his chain of command, they began to weave their little web to get rid of him completely.
The Navy decided it would be better to set up and destroy one chief petty officer than to court martial five naval officers for their criminal misconduct.
The Navy sprung their little trap by first calling up a nearby Air Force base and lied to them saying that Tufariello was planning to commit suicide. They then instructed Tufariello to put on his dress uniform, that the captain wanted to speak with him about his “allegations” of payroll fraud.
The captain knew all about it, because it took his signature to authorized payments to anyone.
When Tufariello arrived, the captain was no where to be found. Instead Marines were standing by to take him into custody and cart him away in a paddy wagon.
Marines guards physically seized Tufariello and drove him to Carswell Air Force base where he was incarcerated in the mental ward of the base hospital. In the Navy they refer to such behavior a despicable act that was lower than whale turds.
Unbeknownst to most people, the United States Navy has been effectively using psych examinations and wrongful incarcerations in mental hospitals to discredit whistleblowers for a long time. We wonder if we learned the technique from the Russians, or they learned if from us.
The Russians aren’t so tactful. “Comrade, you’re not looking so well. Go with the guards they have a doctor waiting to examine you.” Then it’s off to Siberia.
The following week, the Air Force doctor realized he had been duped by the Navy. He ordered Tufariello’s immediate discharge from the mental ward saying, “Nurse, you call up that naval base and tell them I will not be a party to their little political games anymore.”
When Michael Tufariello returned to NAS Dallas, Texas the following day, people all whispered behind his back, ‘There’s the crazy chief who wanted to commit suicide.” It was all a lie, but he was effectively neutralized as any threat to their little system of organized crime.
He was set up by his command because he was trying to protect the taxpayers from this systemic fraud that permeates through the naval reserve system. We have many reports from people with similar stories as well as various other fraudulent activities.
Even though he didn’t want to retire, Tufariello was threatened with retaliation by his command if he did not immediately submit his retirement paperwork. The ingrained payroll fraud would continue.
The naval officers who perpetrated the crime(s), got away clean… because that’s the way the Navy likes it, thank you very much.
One officer stood up for Tufariello, but the Navy made quick work of him also.
Even so, the officer began a relentless letter writing campaign. Eventually, Congress wanted to hear from Tufariello. His testimony was instrumental in passing the Military Whistleblower Act of 1988.
It was all for naught however. The military just ignores the protections afforded to its members in the Act, consequently and the fraud continues unabated, even unto this very day.
Mr. Musk, get Secretary Pete Hegseth onboard to convince Congress in doing away with the proverbial aircraft carrier and completely get rid of the military reserve system. You’ll save trillions of dollars just from the Pentagon alone.
Former military members can report to regular military bases and receive their training from active duty units. There’s no need to waste billions of dollars on a corrupt military reserve system. Its long outlived its day.
The time to examine and debate these issues is right now. At this point, the American people are super pissed-off, and are demanding lasting change that will not allow this horrible government waste to continue. And, Mr. Musk, if you really want to save some wasted tax money… spend lots of time in the Pentagon.
AND FINALLY! If President Trump is serious about saving money, he will take aggressive action to ensure that admirals and generals are not allowed to retire to avoid prosecution.
The President may not realize that a two-tiered justice system which allowed for “lawfare” against him, has been going on in the military since George Washington. Fort Leavenworth and all other military prisons are where the United States military sends their whistleblowers so the fraud can continue.
If you bail out the J6’ers Mr. President, please don’t forget about all those who are serving time in military prisons for attempting to protect tax dollars. Some are actually innocent. A very high number of the convicted have been terribly over-sentenced. Instead of receiving six months, they got ten years.
Stop the military from silencing whistleblowers with their corrupt judicial system and you’ll save a ton of money as well has preventing numerous legal injustices.
Oh, and another thing… fix that stupid “fraud, waste and abuse hotline.” It was set up by the military to flush out the whistleblowers, not to curb fraud, waste and abuse. It’s not working. It has never worked because it’s the chickens calling the foxes who are guarding the hen house.
Since it was established during the Reagan administration, the government received millions of phone calls on the so-called “fraud hotline.”
In forty-five (45) years, not one person has ever been charged or convicted of fraud, waste or abuse. Only the whistleblowers were attacked, not the perpetrators of the crimes. That’s but one of the reasons there is so much waste. The Pentagon likes the waste and fraud to continue…
You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.
If you really want to save some money, have those whistleblower calls go directly to the DOJ or some agency that is not under the influence of the Pentagon.
Thank you Mr. Musk and President Trump for the work you are doing on behalf of the American people. Keep your foot on the gas pedal!
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