Leaving Pentagon money unspent would end an officer’s career

Evidence

“If you didn’t spend the money,” I asked, “what would have happened?” “That never happened,” Witherington replied. “There was a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that the money will be committed and there will still be [unfunded] ‘requirements’” left over. There was “never an instance” when money was left over, he said. “That would have been a career ender.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 793