Pay peanuts, get monkeys and donkeys and wannabe lions in uniforms.
the famously cash-strapped MoD
Oh FFS ..... pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Governments and militaries, amongst other sundry institutions, always have a bottomless pit of flash fiat cash to splash, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise and reveal themselves as ignorant of the fact.
Haven't you yet worked out how everything happens around you, and how it is paid for?