Military’s $4B moving program keeps climbing — and no one knows why

Lt. Col. Alan Brown and his wife Kristy Brown get ready to leave their home in Eagle River after three years, the longest they’ve been in any location since they married. (Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Eagle River)Last year, the Department of Defense spent $4.3 billion moving service-members and their families all over the globe. The annual cost to taxpayers keep trending upwards, even as the overall number of moves shrinks amid a restructuring of the nation’s