We hope this will lead to addressing these issues to our congressmen so they will take remedial actions. I would hope that a program would be set up where a recommendation acted upon would lead to a small compensation to those who identify the wasteful activity and it is eliminated. I suspect if people were compensated for their suggestions, we'd sure reduce a lot of government waste. Still, identification and pressure on our elected officials are all we can hope for at this time. If you would like to post one of your recommendations, please send us an e-mail.
Military bands provide no useful ability to conduct the military mission.
There are about 400 of them at the last time I saw an estimate. Generally the assignment to a military band is permanent for the career of a soldier. In fact they deter from the mission in that band members often obtain promotions deserved by the supervisor that is working in an assignment with out the grade that assignment calls for. It therefore hampers that supervisor in doing his job and also causes inferior supervisors to rise to the top and sit on an effective military member keeping them from doing the best possible job. I served over 26 years of active military duty and most of that time in a job calling for rank several grades higher than I held.