Then the whole "A PATRIOT COSTS ALMOST AS MUCH AS THE FUNCO POPS IN MY ASS! WHAT ABOUT THAT? HMMM?"
Ordnance is ordnance. It expires, it's made to use.
The same people who whine about 'aging stockpiles' and 'no missiles being made any more' (when R is in power. When D is in power it is statesmanship demilitarizing) scream "BUT THE TOMAHAWK COSTS 4 DISNEY VACATIONS!" or what the fuck ever.
Look, the shit gets used in training. Destroyed in place. Our stockpiles were slowly replenished over 5 years (we gave Ukraine a lot of stuff, but that lit a fire under a few things and got the bunkers reloaded) and now they'll be replenished again.
The side order effects to having the munition replacement running is:
A healthy war stockpile
A healthy apocalypse stockpile
A healthy 'give to other countries' stockpiles so that Europe can pretend their helping after borrowing a cup of bullets.
A healthy training stockpile.
One of the reasons the US is so fucking dominating is the fact we do live fire exercises all the time. (Including, back in the bad old days, cracking off a M142 for shits and giggles now and then)
These people act like we don't have a massive fucking military budget that ALMOST equals food stamps and Section-8 and welfare.