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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God help America. We need leadership.
It was their plan all along
But Them up for auction for the public, make some money from it to help some call charities preferably veterans.
More government waste. Give it to the military to fight terrorists
I will take a thousand rounds of 556 if you please
well now that there are no lead smelters left on the usa he woll destryo what he can we the puplic cant get any now they are trying to ban lead , it hazourdis
Debby. Did you mean to say innocent Muslims?
bet there is a lot of gun owners out here in the states that can use some of that ammo, why not sell it to us at a greatly discounted rate?
we have the dumbest bunch of idiots squandering our tax dollars there has ever been…………….to dumb asses
they complain about millions of dollars in Medicare and then destroy billions of dollars in ammunition while Homeland Security buys 2 billion dollars on the same ammunition….all because their computer systems in the different branches of the military can’t share information ??!!