Actually cutting down the man power does save a lot of money.Remember in the US each troop gets food and housing paid for.if they are married they get base housing which is again free of charge.
A single junior enlisted gets everything food,clothing,housing(and experiences there of) all covered.Then you have BAS (basic allowance for substance) and BAQ( basic allowance for quarters). Everyone who lives off base gets these to a very large extent and it goes up to match the cost of living in the particular region the troop and family (if he has one lives Japan is the best because the cost of living is very high there)
The savings by trimming out say 25,000 from the entire military would actually be substantial.
There are actually ways for each branch to deal with MIC crap that is not needed.Trust me I was personally involved in insuring certain new un-needed crap getting forced upon us failed.
That is only part of it when ever they cut troops a portion of what ever they where supporting also goes away which saves money.
The MIC is a problem and an expense but so is to a very large extent the cost of feeding housing medicating a troop and his family.Consider how much it costs for one typical American in one year to pay rent pay water pay electric to eat so on. Now imagine having to pay 100% or a sizable portion of that cost for over 1 million people.Pretty expensive.Oh and you also have to pay roughly 1 million people a salary every two weeks.
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