{"id":64724,"date":"2016-03-07T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64724"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:55:30","slug":"hunter-seals-complain-about-weapons-carousel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64724","title":{"rendered":"Hunter: SEALs complain about “weapons carousel”"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter tells Fox News<\/a> that Naval Special Warfare operatives complain to him that their personal weapons are being rotated between troops leaving and entering the combat zones. That it’s not the problem that there isn’t money enough for each SEAL to have his own weapon, but rather, it’s a case of the penny-pinching perfumed princes at the Pentagon looking for ways to afford a housekeeper or cook at their flag officer’s quarters.<\/p>\n

The problem isn’t a lack of money, according to Hunter. Congress has frequently boosted the budgets of special operations forces in the years since the 9\/11 attacks, he said. Rifles also are among the least expensive items the military buys, leading Hunter to question the priorities of Naval Special Warfare Command, the Coronado, California, organization that oversees the SEALs.<\/p>\n

“There is so much wasteful spending,” he said. “Money is not reaching the people it needs to reach.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, this is not my shocked face. The people who need equipment the least are the ones who get it first. We made our first trip into Iraq in Woodland camouflage BDUs while all of the forklift drivers in the port had desert fatigues. The only way I got my troops new socks was because one of my troops was married to a woman in the support battalion. One of my infantryman walked out of both pairs of his boots and it took an IG complaint to get him a new pair while every POG in KKMC had two brand new pairs of desert boots. I guess things don’t change.<\/p>\n

I’d use someone else’s underwear before I’d share my rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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