-The cost of equipping an infantry soldier tripled, from $7000 in 1999 to $24,000 today.
-The cost of Humvee's went from $32,000 in 2001 to a breathtaking $225,000 each today.
-The cost of training, feeding and housing Army recruits went from $75,000 per soldier in 2001 to $120,000 today. (The Army uses private contractors, largely Halliburton's Kellogg, Root & Brown, to provide most non-training services, such as food service and base maintenance.)

I never should have left the Marines. I'd be so rich by now, as I was in before Marines were being killed for little pay and the glory of Halliburton. In my time, our SS told us that we only had to make it through the three years, and then, as retiring officers, we'd be offered cushy landside jobs in these corporations as soon as we got out.