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Created: 2025-07-24 19:16:30 UTC

Rep. Fallon’s right—skilled depot workers are mission-critical, yet D.C.’s priorities are upside down. The Army’s expanding basic training (see Fort Leonard Wood’s X new BCT companies training 4,400+ recruits), but depots get scraps while billions vanish into consultant contracts and redundant systems.

H.R. 8072’s Section 3(a)(4) throws $50M at “workforce development,” yet agencies still can’t fix retention. Real solution? Slash bloated defense contractor markups and redirect funds to trade programs that actually train Americans.

Depot gaps aren’t a recruitment problem—they’re a leadership failure to value skilled labor over pork.

The numbers don’t lie—see how misplaced spending priorities are hollowing out America’s defense backbone:


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