30 billion for a year for 30,000 troops?????????????????????

[Oldman]

Did I miss something here?
Does anyone on here know math???
30,000 troops into $30,000,000,000 = uh, uh, let me see here. Let me try that one more time here.
30,000 troops devided into $30,000,000,000 = uh, uh, well shoot.

One Million Dollars per person per year.

[ian neal]

No I heard that figure as well on Radio 4. It costs $1bn each year to keep 1000 troops on the ground

Staggering but (probably) true. Probably actually an underestimate if you factored in the cost of repaying debts that the UK/US have incurred as a result of the war or the various humungous R&D budgets that 'defense' companies spend in developing new ways of killing people.

[Oldman]

30 billion for 30 thousand troops equals the same as 1 billion per thousand troops, any way you look at it. It is still ONE MILLION DOLLARS to keep each troop and that my man, is simply being stolen from the tax payer. Like everything else.
There's no way on God's Green Earth it should take more than 75-100 K per man per year.
They are robbing us blind. All it is to it. Robbing us blind because too many people are already wearing blinders.

[scubadiver]

Now I am anti-war as much as the rest of you but you have to remember that this figure will include EVERYTHING. The equipment needed for war is a lot more expensive than you might think.

[fish5133]

[scubadiver]