West Point cadet drops out to protest influence of fundamentalist Christianity

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41. Let's start with understanding how the military is funded

Officers golf clubs -which are now very rare in the military; I think there are only a couple left because most of the clubs are all-ranks now - are self funding. The facilities were built decades ago, and ongoing operations are funded by players' fees.

Colonels and generals have drivers but those are troops from the ranks.

If you want to cut the military budget, start with cutting Natick Labs. And this would be expensive up front, but why in hell does the Army's field car, the Humvee, get six miles to the gallon? We have sixty thousand of these monstrosities. My thought is to hire Robby Gordon, who's won the Baja 1000 many times, to design a new field car. It will have to seat four, get 15 mpg unarmored and 8 armored (I think a HMMWV with an armor kit gets three), tow a two-ton trailer, last through five laps of the Baja 1000 course without disabling frame damage, and run on diesel.