Besides, the contractor (General Dynamics) needs to keep people busy, in Canada where the vehicles are manufactured.

It would be nice if that money could have been used for anything remotely worthwhile....

presumably disposing of the useless items.

Real True Patriots (tm) measure defense by the size of the DOD budget. Efficiency is weakness, my friend.

And a for clarity, in these parody-proof times.

but I think the Defense Department is the only federal agency not to use standard accounting practices, which are designed to uncover questionable activities.

send to Cayman Islands accounts belonging to law makers?

and firing the bean counters for not doing their jobs.

(If you don't know what I'm talking about, look at the caption under the picture). I spent a lot of time in and around that town in 2004.

We were only a few miles from the Iron Triangle in my war.

They keep saying "the army", but the reality is that one group of people order the extra parts and arrange for repairs, another group of people come up with the solution to the root malfunction. Unfortunately, the first group has little knowledge of the second group, and they just keep doing what they're doing until told to stop. Problem is, the office that's suppose to tell them to stop is handling a few billion dollars worth of activitey, and a 572K part doesn't get alot of attention. Of course, as these small items add up, pretty soon; "You're talking real money">.