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The military waste money? Naw, say it isn't so!
I was in the Navy when the DoD instituted the "Waste, Fraud and Abuse" reporting system.We were given a phone number and a big speech about how it was "imperitive" that "Wate, Fraud and Abuse" be eradicated, and we were admonished to "report without hesitation" any excessive costs we discovered. So, one fine day I picked up the phone and dialed the number. The voice on the other end requested my name, rank and squadron, then asked for a part number and description of the part I was reporting. It was a "canopy de-fog mating horn", a piece of aluminum tubing, 8" long with a mating flange and a mounting bracket welded to one end of it-----$7,600.
Three days later, I was called into maintenance control and basically told to keep my mouth shut. A few months after that, I ordered another of the same item-----$8,200.
Dave
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"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
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