Now, that money can go where it was meant to go—to warfighting capability, equipment, and real military readiness. Not to a soft-sell military outreach program disguised as STEM enrichment. The truth is, if STARBASE had any real educational value beyond its DoD connections, private industry or the Department of Education could have funded it. But guess what? They didn’t. Because deep down, everyone knew what it really was—a backdoor recruitment pipeline wrapped in feel-good marketing.
Of course, the contractors who managed these programs are scrambling now—because nothing upsets the well-fed bureaucracy more than a budget getting slashed. That $60 million was paying a lot of salaries, securing a lot of cozy contracts, and greasing plenty of wheels. But the DoD’s job is defense, not running K-12 STEM camps. It took a while, but finally, someone realized that money for military readiness should actually go toward the military.
So, while some are still crying over STARBASE, let’s just call it what it was: a misallocated, government-funded PR stunt that finally got the axe. The military doesn’t need feel-good classroom programs—it needs warfighters, equipment, and operational effectiveness. And now, $60 million is back where it belongs.
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