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2008-12-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by OldSpook 2008-12-08 11:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 This is where military bureaucrats shine. Since the military has no choice but to accept the powder, the questions become, "How can we get the superior product as well?", and "What do we do with the other crap?"

Of course the priority is to get a product that works. But after that is done, ship out vast quantities of the crap as "military aid", that congress also dictates the military pay for.

Say Obambi decides to give military aid to Mugabe, to help him support his regime? Maybe his army can make soup out of for what would be for them a 50 year supply of resin? Utterly useless "military aid."

At the same time, pass around the message to other armies in the world, that the profiteer company's products are crap, and to not buy them. Suddenly the schemers find out that they can't give their crap away.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-08 14:33|| 2008-12-08 14:33|| Front Page Top

#2 No surprise to me at all, and I wasn't even a supply and procurement troop, or a high-ranking one at that; this sort of ear-marking even made itself felt at the commissary and PX. Our fearless solons seemed to view those places as a means to dispose of agricultural surplus - and to keep the PX from competing with local retail outlets. Remember when a powerful senator from a dairy products state did a tour of European base commissaries and found (gasp!) French and German cheeses in the delis? Obviously, Kraft ought to be good enough for us. Or how Ron Dellums forced the AAFES package stores in Europe to stock California wines, never mind how perfectly good European stuff was available, without the cost of shipping it? How about how the BX at Mather AFB couldn't stock major appliances like refrigerators and microwaves in the early 1980s, because the local merchants would squawk to their pet local politicians? Oh, the nerve of those enlisted peons, wanting to avoid paying through the nose on the local economy.

OTO - nothing beat Department of Ag surplus cheddar for making mac and cheese. Great stuff - the commissary used to have it for 50 cents a pound.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-12-08 22:41|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-12-08 22:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Or shipping milk across the Pacific to our bases in Japan at a huge cost.
And we had to dump it because it rotted in transit.

Posted by Fleamp Mussolini1528 2008-12-08 23:10|| 2008-12-08 23:10|| Front Page Top

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