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  It would take decades to rebuild that force structure. 
  Add in that recruiting is already having massive challenges in meeting numbers, then add in a need to recruit more recruits into the specialized (high ASVAB, long training time) rates and MOSes and it’s even more a problem.
context: I think the biggest issue is just getting a proper accounting of how things are spent. They’ve been working on it but it hasn’t been going great. I’m it’s current state we couldn’t do a. Real audit even if we wanted to. >
  
  Given the, uh, current geopolitical climate, I can't imagine US and Russia agreeing to anything, much less nuclear disarmament. >
  
  One easy way to help with the budget would be to get rid of a lot of the military contractors and let military members do that work. When I was in the Navy as an IT when we were out at sea I could do the work but in our home port a contractor was to come on and my job then was to babysit them.