FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month.
The anger and hurt were immediate...continued
When you're wasting $12 billion a month, you need to find somewhere to cut the cost.
Not to mention, we don't want to draw too much attention.