{"id":32005,"date":"2012-09-14T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32005"},"modified":"2012-09-14T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:48:27","slug":"dods-20m-for-firewood-we-just-spend-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32005","title":{"rendered":"DoD’s $20m for firewood; “we just spend the money”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure, but if I was in charge at DoD, I’d have probably cut some of this stuff<\/a> decades ago before anyone found out about it, and long before I was going balls-to-the-wall to raise retires’ Tricare fees;<\/p>\n

\u201cIt mentions in your report that the U.S. military is spending $20 million for firewood. Is there any justification for $20 million in Afghan firewood?\u201d [Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)] asks John F. Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Chairman that was one of the more interesting comments my auditor told me is that \u2014 you are absolutely correct we are paying\u2026approximately $20 million a year for firewood,\u201d Sopko confirmed. \u201cAnd when my auditors asked for documentation on what we spent on firewood, we were basically told quote unquote \u2018we don\u2019t have, the records we just spend the money.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, that’s not how we retirees spend our money, although apparently, the Department of Defense thinks everyone does. But, here we are buying firewood, I’m guessing, but not convinced, that it’s to keep Afghans warm because they’re too lazy to go out and collect the meager amounts of wood around their homes. <\/p>\n

Either that, or we’re buying it for those mansions on Fort Meyers, because those are the only Army residences that have fireplaces that I can think of. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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