[anotherman554]

Can you elaborate? What you wrote seems to contradict this source:

"Roughly one-quarter of the Department of Defense’s budget is for military personnel."

https://www.cbo.gov/topics/defense-and-national-security/mil...

[walljm]

I looked closer, and it seems my memory is either bad or the levels have changed since I last dug into those numbers. In either case, thanks for checking those numbers!