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From the halls of Montezuma,<\/p>\n
to the shores of Tripoli<\/p>\n
We will fight our country’s auditors<\/p>\n
And will emerge victory<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Or something like that.\u00a0 Yes, boys and girls, an armed service has finally passed an audit! Plaudits to all of our crayon eaters, the Brotherhood of Leather Neck Guards, the few, the proud, the Marines – pulling a sneaky past the accountants of the Army, the Navy, the Air\/Space F
a<\/del>orce and became the very FIRST service to actually pass an annual audit.<\/p>\nThe Marine Corps this week became the first military branch ever to pass a complete financial audit, a Defense Department official confirmed Friday, having successfully accounted for more than $46.3 billion in assets and marking the end of a two-year effort.<\/p>\n
Independent accountants contracted by the Defense Department issued an “unmodified opinion” on the Marine Corps’ fiscal 2023 financial statement, meaning the information given was as correct as can be proved, the service said.<\/p>\n
In 2023, it meant going to more than 70 sites worldwide to look at thousands of real property assets; more than a million other operating assets, such as vehicle spare parts and weapons and communications systems; and more than 24 million rounds of ammunition — sometimes within Army and Navy stockpiles where the Marine Corps had property stored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Even working past the Army and Navy confusion didn’t keep the Devil Dogs down.<\/p>\n
“We had to have documentation for that asset, in addition to the auditors having to view those assets and count those assets,\u201d Gregory Koval, the assistant deputy commandant for resources, said in an interview Friday with Military.com. \u201cSo, not just numbers, not just systems, not just data, but they were actually evaluating what we have on hand, what we have on site, and if something was not there, we had to provide them with information to show where it was.”\u00a0\u00a0 Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Who knew the finest inventoriers , accountants, and clipboarders wear Marine camo.<\/p>\n
Great job, guys, now you can PROVE you have the lowest stockpiles of the most outmoded shit instead of just bragging about it.<\/p>\n
As your taxi service says, Bravo Zulu.<\/p>\n
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