Potential catalyst causing people to leave the military

Testimony to Congress by the US Army’s Chief of Staff seemed pretty contentious: “Candidly, failure to pass a budget, in my view both as an American citizen and chief of staff of the United States Army, constitutes professional malpractice. I don’t think we should accept it as the new normal. I think we should pass it and pass the supplemental with it. And get on with it.”

Points:

• ”…by early summer training will stop across much of the military”
• “Routine maintenance of equipment will be halted, and thousands of military families will see transfer orders put on hold.”

Counterpoint by Representative Adam Smith (D-WA): “can’t agree ‘that we can somehow pull defense out of the entire rest of the federal government … as if all the other money we spend on government doesn’t matter.’”