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What????? It's about $1M/year/troop. I think you missed something
somewhere...
I am just quoting the number that is floating around CNN and MSNBC
this week.

The $1m a year is DoD overall and includes that soldier painting rocks
white outside an officer's club in Arkansas and a sailor working at
the Base Exchange in Norfolk

It's not $1M per hour. It's $1M per year. Don't know what CNN/MSNBC
said.
If
it's DoD over all, then it's got to be less per soldier.

You are right about the $1m per year. Now you have me curious about
the other number. Dylan Ratigan, Charley Rose and one of the CNN guys
all had the same number and I heard it to be $700k/hr. I will go back
through my DVR and see if I can get a better cite

Maybe it was $700/hour?

No it was a huge number because they were talking about it compared to
the cost of education and other things we spend a lot of money on.

Probably in the $5-10k an hour range. Depending how many soldiers we are
counting in Iraq. There is 8760 man hours in a year. Multiply that by the
number of soldiers and divide that in to the $800 billion a year or whatever
we are spending there. 10,000 soldiers is about $9k an hour.