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Coast Guard is made to do salvage missions, many more important than this one. The cost of doing a mission like this is not large compared to the cost of acquiring and maintaining the equipment and crews necessary. It's good practice, good PR, and may give technical insight that will be useful to civilian or military engineers working on deep-sea submersibles.
Basically, we've already spent 99% of the money necessary before even considering whether or not to undertake a particular salvage mission. You already bought the car - what's a drive down to the next state over, really? Gas and some wear and tear?
I know it’s not even a rounding error in terms of budgets, but that’s really my point. I know enough about operations planning that in terms of actual dollars (not in the “a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money” sense of the term dollars) that this operation was a significant expense, especially totaling from incident onset forward. I get that’s it’s already budgeted, it’s a great opportunity for hands on training on that rare class of work, and so on.
My point is that we’re prioritizing this as an ongoing operation over those other potential funding needs. That is, we are prioritizing the level of expense for this USCG training and recovery mission over what would be a proportionally massive investment in communities. Even from a purely economics standpoint, investment into communities pays back at a higher rate than more military expenditure.
I mean, it's only estimated at a few million. 1.8 million so far, last I read. Even by community investment standards, that's peanuts. I don't know that "2 additional long-term teachers for one school in a low COL area" is really that much of a 'proportionally massive' investment in communities. And god help whoever has to make the decision who in the whole of the country gets that additional 1.8 million.