The Pentagon has planned to destroy around $1 billion dollars worth of ammo since April 2014, all because they say there is no system in place to share them across different branches of our armed forces.
“Despite years of effort, the Army, Navy and Air Force still don’t have an efficient process for doing something as basic as sharing excess bullets. This Government Accountability Office (GAO) report clearly shows that our military’s antiquated systems lead to millions of dollars in wasteful ammunition purchases.” states Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
And how much did DHS purchase?
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about as bright as a burned out light bulb!!!
Dumb jerks in congress are greedy and want to hold on t THIER seats and money power grabs till the day they die on the congress floor!! They are walking skeletons
The military does this all the time. Surplus and expired ammo is nothing new.
Destroying it, on the other hand, is.
WHAT???!!!!
This isn’t about money, it’s about control
They just bought all they could get their hands on emptying the market & hiking the price for the legal American citizens , now they want to destroy it .
Our military better we on the look out what they are ordered them to do!!! And have a plan if needed in the future
Bull$#%&!@*
This is government at its finest. Why cant there be a central warehouse for distribution of things so it would cut down on waste? Oh that’s right that is to simple.
Time for Americans to have THIER own plans in place when dealing with the enemy within!