Honestly, though, does anybody know the answer and/or why it’s never mentioned as a matter of fact in any of these types of situations? And without a BIASED opinion to boot?

Right now I’m pressed for time, so I’ll save the long-winded diatribe as the catalyst for asking this question for a later time!

But what’s wrong with the VA contracting out credit monitoring service? This is hardly something I would expect the VA to do, as it’s very unlikely to be qualified to do it, to begin with!

That is just a lengthy example of how the military goes about fixing problems. When they see something isn’t working how they expected, they immediately solicit bids to have some civilian company take it over. Look what happened with the VA data breach! As soon as it came to light, they started bidding on a contract for a civilian company to take care of monitoring credit reports. Why couldn’t the military’s current personnel commands have done this? When you hire so many different contractors it should be expected that something like this would happen.