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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sell them to Wholesalers….
corruption at its best
simple solution … Let the SOLDIERS go in and get it, load it, move it, distribute it. You can Bet the men and women of the ARMED FORCES KNOW WHAT THEY NEED !!! Get the Beauracrts out of the way and something can get done !!!
takoda says:
“anyone wanna bet as soon as this billion is destroyed a new contract will be assigned to some huge liberal donating company for $3 billion in new purchases??”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/pentagon-destroy-1-billion-ammunition/comment-page-16/#comment-553526
Sell it surplus! At least this way you will get some money back! Instead a billion in the hole! Morons!
Why??
this is code for hand it out to illegals funded with out tax dollars who want us dead
Hey, what’s a little more waste among friends, right?
The border patrol was denied ammo until October, 2015.
Somebody needs to be fired