Posted on Nov 20, 2013
Destruction of military equipment post conflict
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I experienced this weeks ago and it still haunts me. There I was, sitting in a small FOB in Paktiya, Afghanistan, with only my rifle and my NCO by my side as we overlooked the destruction yard. Despite my training, my weapons, and my wit, there was nothing I could do as the man in front of me swung the hammer down. The crunching sound was sickening. He looked up at us with lifeless eyes and tossed the now mangled ACOG into the growing pile of broken sights that were perfectly good only moments before. I shudder to think about it.
Seriously though, why not have an "Military only Ebay" program to sell these non SI pieces of equipment to service members instead of needlessly destroying them? It would be a great deal to the service members, help offset budgets, and it would make way more sense (scary, I know). Why the senseless destruction?
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Sir, I have witnessed similar silliness throughout the course of my career. "Surveying" as the Coast Guard calls it never made sense to me. If it's functional, why not sell it, trade it, recycle it, DD1149 it, or something, but for the love of Pete, don't destroy good equipment and then complain at budget time about what you don't have.
We might be well served by assigning a Radar O'Reilly to every unit to do nothing but trade, swap and bargain with everybody else to make better use of what we have.
A follow on comment sir. "It would make way more sense". There is no call for that sort of talk or logic in the US military! It flies in the face of what we do.
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That sounds like Fraud, Waste and Abuse. Why couldn't they just ship them back stateside and turn them in to DRMO and let them do what they do. They auction items off if it is allowed for that spacific type of item. That just doesn't sound like policy.
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I may need to speak with mental health, just hearing about this senseless violence.
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CMC Robert Young
Sir, in the Coast Guard if you serve in a really great unit, you can fill out a "Hug Chit" when you have a bad day and route it for approval through your chain of command. Once signed by the CO, the command chief will come by and give you a hug. Do you need a hug sir?
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SPC Randall Eichelberger
I wish our SGM would have given me a hug, but alas that wasn't in his plans. He wanted me to buy him dinner first. LT please talk to someone, I went through ACE training a few years ago the Army told me to help you.
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