{"id":45178,"date":"2014-04-28T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45178"},"modified":"2014-04-28T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T15:09:13","slug":"pentagon-cant-count-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45178","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon can’t count bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul sends us a link from USAToday<\/a> which reports that the pentagon is about to destroy billions of bullets because no one knows how to count them properly. Singing a familiar song, their accounting systems between the services can’t talk to each other;<\/p>\n

The result: potential waste of unknown value.<\/p>\n

“There is a huge opportunity to save millions, if not billions of dollars if the (Pentagon) can make some common-sense improvements to how it manages ammunition,” said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “Despite years of effort, the Army, Navy and Air Force still don’t have an efficient process for doing something as basic as sharing excess bullets. This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report clearly shows that our military’s antiquated systems lead to millions of dollars in wasteful ammunition purchases.”<\/p>\n

The Army and Pentagon, in a statement, acknowledged “the need to automate the process” and will make it a priority in future budgets. In all, the Pentagon manages a stockpile of conventional ammunition worth $70 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s reassuring – they’re going to make it a priority in the future, you know like the information systems between the Department of Defense and the VA has been a priority.<\/p>\n

Of course, DoD could do like the Israelis and the Russians do – they could sell the surplus to private users…like me…and recover some of their money. But then, the Bradys and the Bloombergs would just shit themselves. So let’s just destroy the ammo. We can recover the cost from veterans’ surplus from paying their increased premiums on TriCare while we promise some nebulous fix to the system sometime in the future. Way in the future. In the meantime, we can just blame Bush for making us go to war and buy ammo, in spite of the fact that when he came into office, there was no ammo surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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