Marines make millions off ammo casings and bomb fragments. Is this being done throughout DOD?

Please send me your 7.62x51 and .45ACP brass. :)

I remember Aug and Sep going on recons througout the desert of Fort Irwin (NTC) looking for all sorts of stuff we could use for turn in credit just to make it to the next fiscal year. We had it down to a science. We would hit the blue force log sites from the years previous rotations looking for drive sprockets, road wheels, track shoes, broken torsion bars, etc. The beauty of it was that we were still using Sheridan tanks for BMP-1's and T-72's, M113's for BMP-2's, Huey's for HIND-D's, etc. That meant that practically everything in the Army inventory going back decades could be used. Back then we lived in the desert and had one 4-day off a month.....that's it. If we didn't stomp BLUEFOR on the last attack of the rotation (every rotation ended in us having a defense), our one 4-day was in peril. We would retrain all day and then go on our collections bacross the desert. We also found NVG's 9mm's, 45's M16's, pluggers, and enough TA-50 to start our own army.

Got no problem with this. What I'd have a problem with is if this isn't being done!!