Mr Feinberg says he has received letters from victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Centre bomb attack in 1993, asking why the government did not make similar arrangements for them.
Indeed, in asking Tornado crews to bomb Libya while the force of these aircraft was being cut, or soldiers to patrol in Helmand when their regiments may be shrinking, the tension between austerity and trying to retain some kind of military role in an unstable world could hardly be starker.