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Retired Air Force JAG: Two crucial steps toward reforming the military

The place to start is accountability. Any leader in the Department of Defense whose organization cannot pass an audit should be held accountable.

By R. DAVIS YOUNTS

Would you invest in a business that failed its last five financial audits? Would you donate to an organization that had not passed an audit since 1990? Absolutely not! But in the United States, taxpayers are asked to contribute seemingly unlimited resources to our national defense without ever really asking how the money is spent.

To put this in perspective, last year the United States gave more than $877 billion to the Department of Defense, which is almost $600 billion more than China, the next highest-spending nation. Despite unprecedented levels of spending, much of our military equipment is outdated or useless. My friends and colleagues that are in special operations units do not even use the tactical equipment they are issued because of the poor quality. Instead, they spend their own money to buy gear that works.

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