Re: Stupid military planners...
It's the documantation that cost so much. We had a old hardware removal project for the Air Force that coust 1.2 million. 30,000 to remove the hardware and 1,170,000 to change the doucmentation. And it's not 170 billion it will end up being 340 billion or so. Remember the 430 toilet seat for the Navy? Everyone got hopping mad about it and Congress decided to fix the system well they fixed it all right we now have a situation were the lowest bidder gets the contract but now 9 out of 10 times the lowest bid is not enough money to make the contract work correctly so we save money up front but spend 2-3 times as much making the project work the way it should than we would have spent if we had done it right in the first place. Penny wise dollar foolish.
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The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but does not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later, someone will come along with a sharper sword and hack off our arms
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