Posted on Nov 27, 2017
'Doggie Hamlet,' billion in missing military equipment top report on government waste
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It has been my experience that the first thingg to suffer during operations is the balance books. And once in full blown combat, finances are secondary to mission accomplishment. And when no one is keeping the books and once a unit runs low on funds they just ask for more. Far too often “combat expediency” is a rationalization for poor management. Over A billion $ Of equipment we’re buried in the desert post Desert Storm rather than complete the paperwork and recover it. Rational: It’s cheaper to bury it than ship it back to CONUS. This does not surprise me.
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CWO3 (Join to see)
Some of the after action reports from DS referred to this. The gear from MPF shipping was laid out and the units "went shopping". The urgency of war superseded accounting. The same happened after the Op too. Gear was just parked wherever they could and the units left. There was a lot of illegal modification done on equipment as well. The folks at MCLB Albany and Blount Island MPF Command had a hard time tracking the gear down because it had never been signed for. One Engr unit at Camp Lejeune was reporting a ROWPU unit missing for about 2 years. This is a large item roughly the size of a 5 ton truck. It finally showed up without any paper trail. The RO filter chambers were stuffed with AK 47s. Oops.
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MCPO Roger Collins
This is nothing new, it has occurred during and after all large scale deployment of combat equipment. I was told (unverified) that millions of M-1s were deep sixed because they would impact the firearms industry sales. Also, it has been proven the cost of transportation would be more than replacing it with new updated material. In all probability, it is most likely the Military Industrial Complex has a strong say in the matter.
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Oh nothing new, must be getting close to the end of the year when these reports always seem to show up.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Certainly won't change it. Can the process of accounting for equipment be improved, sure but this stuff has been going on since the days of George Washington.
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This shit will stop only when people both lose their jobs and are forced to pay back at least a portion of what their incompetence/bad judgment has lost.
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