Anyone with a pulse knows that the Pentagon has a history of wasting huge sums of money....Getting money for an education is the number one reason civilians enlist in the first place....Just last week, an internal audit found that the Army squandered $8. 2 billion of taxpayer money on contractors in Iraq....Opponents of the new GI Bill will tell you the retention issue is a question of national security. It isn't. It's a question of money....