$450,000 For Super Bowl Fly Over No One Saw

On Super Bowl Sunday, I mentioned a low lite of the game- the fly over of Navy jets over the closed dome of Cowboy Stadium. Well, the bill has come out and it cost $450,000 for the fly over no one saw in the stadium except on a big screen score board.
From the U.K. Mail Online:The U.S. Navy has been criticised for spending almost half a million dollars of taxpayers' money on a flyover at the Super Bowl - while the stadium roof was closed.
The estimated $450,000 expense was for four fighter jets that flew from Virginia to Texas and over the retractable roof of Cowboys Stadium in Dallas...
The $450,000 figure was based on the aircraft’s operational cost, the time it took pilots in the F-18 jets to fly the mission and a backup plane, according to official data.
But the Navy said the only costs of the trip that it recorded were the fuel expenses of $109,000 and the flyover provided good publicity to help military recruitment.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355727/Navy-spent-450-000-Super-Bowl-flyover-shut-roof.html#ixzz1DiUwI1xu
Hell, they could have shown a tape of a flyover in the stadium and it would have had the same effect.
The Navy said the flight was a training mission. Umm, ok. A training mission several hundred miles from the ocean or Gulf of Mexico. On a Sunday, in the evening, on Super Bowl Sunday. And there are targets just like Dallas in the Middle East. Ohhhh kkkk. Not really believable.
So, when the President and Congress want cuts in the budget, there is nothing wrong with cutting a few million here and a few million there from the defense budget.