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Political Factoid
Personnel costs at the Pentagon are on
an unsustainable course.
- Health care costs have skyrocketed.
- $19 billion in 2001
- $53 billion in 2011
- Military health care covers:
- 3.3 million active duty personnel
and their dependents
- 5.5 million retirees, eligible dependents
and surviving spouses.
- Retirees outnumber those on active duty
almost two to one.
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