The Pentagon has planned to destroy around $1 billion dollars worth of ammo since April 2014, all because they say there is no system in place to share them across different branches of our armed forces.
“Despite years of effort, the Army, Navy and Air Force still don’t have an efficient process for doing something as basic as sharing excess bullets. This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report clearly shows that our military’s antiquated systems lead to millions of dollars in wasteful ammunition purchases.” states Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
And how much did DHS purchase?
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They do in that for corporate so the manufacturer can make more and get hella money
STUPID
This is really the most impossible story, we all paid for it and we may need it.
how about givng it to the people that paid for it??
we don’t have a “FOR AMERICA” gov’t. Plain and simple.
I guess they never learned to share!? Dumb$#%&!@*s.
This is shameful and disgraceful! If they really wanted to do so, they COULD write a program that ALL BRANCHES of the service (military) could use – without leaking information that should not be shared with the other branches! This is pure NONSENSE! And so WASTEFUL!
THAT IS A LOT OF BS
While some ammunition can stay good as new for many decades, others that use liquid explosive or propellants can become unstable or unreliable after a number of years. That might seem wasteful or foolish, but definitely not to our troops, that when they need it to work, it had better be at 100% reliable!…..unless you suppose it should be otherwise.
Is this the brainy idea of one of Obamas friends or what