U.S. SENATORS diverted troop funds to pet projects (CLICK HERE...THEN SEND YOUR LETTER!)

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"These are the accounts that pay for troop training, repairs, spares and supplies for vehicles, weapons, ships and planes, food and fuel..."

Raiding those accounts to fund big-ticket projects the military does not want, but that benefit senators' home states or campaign contributors, amounts to "rancid gluttony..."

"Air Force and Navy combat pilots training to deploy are getting about half of the flying hours they got at the end of the Vietnam War," he wrote in his analysis. "Army tank crews get less in tank training today than they did during the low-readiness Clinton years."

...the Navy had been forced to curtail at-sea training and flying because of a shortfall in 2009 O&M funds.