Obama’s African vacation is estimated to cost the taxpayers $100 million. This boondoggle in Africa included his family and a huge entourage of staff that required multiple military cargo planes airlifting 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines, and three trucks to carry bulletproof glass to cover the windows where the president and his family will stay.

This is all happening while our hard-fighting military is being squeezed for every red cent in savings:

CBS News Reports PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Military veterans are upset after the annual Camp Lejeune fireworks show for military members and their families was cut.

What makes it even worse: A Pittsburgh area company offered to do the show for free, but the government said, thanks, but no thanks. The military says the show meant for more than 47,000 Marines and Sailors was cancelled.

Military Times Reports VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — At a naval base that’s home to many sailors in the special warfare community, a large tarp is pulled over the base’s only outdoor lap pool.

Lounge chairs are piled in high stacks and what little water was visible in the swimming pool on a recent visit appeared a dark shade of green.

Elsewhere at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, a water park that’s highly popular with the children of service members is open one less day a week this summer.

In the sweltering days of summer, members of the military and their families like to cool off by using low-cost swimming pools found on many bases around the world.

But this year the annual tradition of swimming laps under the sun and whizzing down waterslides behind heavily protected gates is taking a hit due to automatic budget cuts.

Some installations are closing their outdoor swimming pools altogether, while many others are reducing hours or opening fewer days each week.