The defense department traditionally has taken the position that cost is less important than readiness and reliability in determining what sorts of personnel should fill jobs, but with budget deficits beginning to bite the high cost of manning non-combat positions in this manner will undoubtedly become subject to greater scrutiny.
With individual member states covering the cost of the instruments on board, the total overall budgetshould emerge somewhere around the billion euro mark.
The cost of buying property will be highly dependent on the destination, but nonetheless you shouldbudget for the usual additional expenses involved, including legal fees, taxes and insurance.
At the very least, we should give them the chance to come up with this budget instead of making indiscriminate cuts now that will cost us jobs and significantly slow down our recovery.