The U.S. military has dedicated nearly 6 million hours since the start of the Biden administration on “developing, preparing, delivering, attending or assessing” new plans to address climate change , diversity , and extremism .
Gen. Mark Milley , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided those numbers to Sen. Jim Inhofe , the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the senator announced.
Inhofe and 11 other Republican members of the committee wrote to Milley back in early November requesting information on the monetary and manpower costs of “the Biden administration’s progressive social agenda within the Department of Defense,” and the Oklahoma senator shared Milley’s response on Tuesday.
By a wide margin, the most expensive and timely venture was combating perceived extremism. Members of the armed forces, Combatant Commands, and the Joint Staff spent 5.4 million hours on extremism, an average of roughly two hours per service member, and it “is comparable to other Joint Force periodic training requirements,” Milley explained. It cost $535,000.