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Pentagon "Loses Track" Of Equipment From $750mm Bomb-Spotting Program, Finds On eBay & Craigslist
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
The Pentagon lost track of sensitive equipment from a $750 million program to help U.S. soldiers spot roadside bombs — and some of it wound up for sale on eBay, Craigslist and other websites, according to a Navy intelligence document obtained by The Intercept.
The report went on to state that “more than 32,000 pieces of equipment were issued” under the program, and the items “are NOT for civilian use and are controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.” The devices went missing because the military units had poor control over equipment distributed to them, according to the intelligence brief.
JIEDDO has been heavily criticized over the years for expending large sums of money without attaining clear results. According to a 2012 report by the Government Accountability Office, JIEDDO had spent over $18 billion yet lacked an effective way to oversee its programs.
– From the Intercept article: Sensitive Military Gear Ended Up on eBay, Craigslist
Another day, another example of the inconceivable incompetence of the U.S. government.
Just yesterday, I published a post titled, Can’t Make This Up – U.S. Providing Aid in Fight Against ISIS in Iraq Alongside Iranian Troops. Here’s an excerpt in case you missed it:
The U.S. has started providing Iraq with aerial intelligence in the stalled battle to oust Islamic State from Tikrit, drawing the American military into closer coordination with Iranian-backed militias spearheading the offensive.
Military officials said they aren’t working directly with Iran. But the intelligence will be used to help some 20,000 Iranian-backed Shiite militia fighters who make up the bulk of the force that has been struggling for weeks to retake the strategic city.
Quite interesting, since last I checked Iran was the most evil, horrific existential threat to humanity on planet earth.
However, it appears providing aid to Iran in Iraq and losing $500 millions in weapons to al-Qaeda in Yemen wasn’t bad enough. America had to put a cherry on top of it all by losing military equipment from a $750 million program, some of which ended up for sale on eBay and Craigslist. Can’t make this up indeed.
From the Intercept:
The Pentagon lost track of sensitive equipment from a $750 million program to help U.S. soldiers spot roadside bombs — and some of it wound up for sale on eBay, Craigslist and other websites, according to a Navy intelligence document obtained by The Intercept.
The March 12, 2014 document is titled “Diversion and Illegal Sales of Restricted USG Optical Systems” and is marked “For Official Use Only.” It lists 13 websites where the military equipment was listed for sale, including Craigslist, eBay, texasguntalk.com and sportfishermen.com, among others. “Items have been marketed as sporting goods; hunting equipment; bird-watching equipment and camping supplies,” the report notes.
The report went on to state that “more than 32,000 pieces of equipment were issued” under the program, and the items “are NOT for civilian use and are controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.” The devices went missing because the military units had poor control over equipment distributed to them, according to the intelligence brief.
The bomb-detecting equipment was provided as part of a larger program called RCOS/Keyhole, which was funded by the Pentagon’s bomb fighting agency, known as the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), and administered by the U.S. Navy.
JIEDDO has been heavily criticized over the years for expending large sums of money without attaining clear results. According to a 2012 report by the Government Accountability Office, JIEDDO had spent over $18 billion yet lacked an effective way to oversee its programs.
The Intercept found an eBay listing from Dec. 2014 for one of the pieces of equipment listed in the the NCIS document — the OASYS-BAE Systems Universal Thermal Monocular; it was listed for sale in Dec. 2014 for $6,000, with free standard shipping. Another item, currently listed for sale, is a CNVD-T Clip-On Night Vision Device Thermal System; it is advertised for $16,599.00 in “new condition!”
NCIS did not respond to email queries or a phone message requesting comment on the report.
Naturally.
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incredible.. really is.. smh
TRENTON: Tighter controls eyed on acquisition of military gear by cops.. ..guess that didnt work..http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/01/trenton-tighter-controls-eyed-on-acq...
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
You're in the wrong business. Try selling stolen US Army shit on ebay.
I'm making over 7000/month selling stolen Army shit on ebay. This has totally changed my life! Slavic arms dealers tell me Ukraine is a wonderful place to visit- lots of cash thrown around by Nuland etal... and the girls... mwah!
Note to NSA- the above is what is known as sardonic/sarcastic humor. I am NOT, repeat NOT, actually selling any stolen Army shit on ebay. I do not, repeat, DO NOT know any Slavic arms dealers. but what I said about Ukranian women- that shit is true.
and then this happened. but it didn't happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6AmyRTBdXI
You can make any new order without the chaos part.
Now, who here thinks that the US government could suppress a popular insurrection?
(I'll give you a hint: I think that they stand a chance. Where was your food grown and processed? You had damned well better keep that in mind. And for more reasons than just insurrection.)
CHILL.OUT.
You Domestic Extremists...
We can afford to lose stuff because our economy is unbelievably strong.
Thank you Dear Leader Obama for this amazingly hot economy. It's so hot we're throwing shit away!
Sorry for being off topic, but from the archives, Brown/Ferguson is still hot in St. Louie.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/28/us/st-louis-metrolink-beating
and
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-cardinals-pla...
the kid was a big bully and get a life..............
He had his chance, am sure this was not the kids 1st rodeo, however it may have been his first as an adult..............
Shame he did not learn as a juvinile delinquent.....
I am sure he had his chance.
Somehow I doubt this was the first time he had an altercation with the cops...............
DUH!
Some just do not get it.................
i wait the day gov will loose itself in the desert, without water.
Did you have fun building and playing with the toys Mr. Military man? Good, cause you can go home now, we outlawed war and don't need your services anymore.
Here's 750 million dollars.....don't lose that......cause you're not getting anymore.
JIEDO is a Boondoggle. They wanted at one time to create a "mechanical dog" that could sniff out bombs which led to the conclusion, by me, why not just use REAL dogs? I guess they would say that if they could figure out how to make the mechanical dogs they could be massed produced more quickly and cheaply than the real ones which are expensive and time consuming to to train. But instead of seeing a perfectly good system (a real dog) and spending money to get more of them (how many years woudl an R&D program to create a viable mechanical dog take versus just ramping up real dog production?), they wanted a high tech solution. DARPA is also workign on a Mechanical Mule which leads to the same question - what's wrong with a real one? Plus the real ones can generally feed themselves in most environments if they have to. A lot times people just throw common sense out the window.
The solution to the IED problem in Iraq was always tactical, but the US chased all kinds of fruitless high tech solutions and wasted lots of money that could have been better invested in things like more soldiers, or better yet, just refraining from going into Iraq in the first place, especially when there was no clue about the culture, no clear operation or strategic objectives, and no long-term idea or committment to do what was required to effectively occupy and administer the country. We just went in, wrecked the place, and marveled at how everything could possibly be so fucked up and disfunctional.
By misspelling "lose" the meaning of the message has completely changed.
+1
'Hands up- Don't Loot!'
So way back when I was in the military, they use to have this thing called 'accountability'.
Pretty simple. Someone loses any taxpayer shit and someone gets fired. Like the unit commander. That's how it should be.
Anything and everything the military uses is assigned to and signed for by someone - you don't just go in a big warehouse and load up your duce-and-a-half with toys and drive off.
Somewhere there is a signature on a form by someone that reports to an active duty military commander that accepted this equipment. Fire him, fire his boss, and then fire their boss and court marshall all of them - they lost tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayers equipment through negligence or incompetence. They don't deserve to be in the military and we don't need them in the U.S. military. If a logistics commander says he doesn't know where some of this went or who signed for it, then relieve him of duty and court marshal his ass as well.
Ask a soldier, sailor or marine what happens if they 'lose' a couple thousand dollar weapon during training - they'll shut down the whole goddamn base and search for it. The poor schmuck is finished in the military even if they do find it. $15,000 of thermal imaging shit that ends up on eBay? Yeah.... well. the Pentagon merely 'lost track of it'. Fuck that - let's see some senior officer's heads roll.
"Note to NSA- the above is what is known as sardonic/sarcastic humor. I am NOT, repeat NOT, actually selling any stolen Army shit on ebay. I do not, repeat, DO NOT know any Slavic arms dealers. but what I said about Ukranian women- that shit is true."
Its sad you felt you needed to type that in.
It would actually be the CIA knocking on McCormick's door - thinking they'd found a new route to funnel hardware to Nuland's Nazis...
I been coming here for years and this is a Top 10 comment for me.
you hangin wit da DEA agin bro?
LOL, good one.
Close behind is selling HW to the DOD at inflated prices. I'm sure you can get anew IR Imager for half the price ~ $3k. Look at FLIR.
one-hundred
You're trying to make a dollar conning people with a dream of making a decent living from home. Maybe you were desperate when they conned you and you con others and they are forced to propagate the con on friends and family to achieve the riches you promise and they end up losing time and money and are worse off than before.
You are a leech.
Best quit while you are ahead as karma is a bitch.
We "MLM'd" a lot of people. Great way to
get robo calls for life.
"I 'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do..."
Spamming moron ...
That is a lot of dick sucking.
Pentagon turned this:
http://www.metro1.com.br/uploads/imagens/blog/IMG_1346334329.jpg
A anus with a marble in the center (F-35).
hehe.
Pentagon turned this:
http://www.metro1.com.br/uploads/imagens/blog/IMG_1346334329.jpg
A anus with a marble in the center (F-35).
hehe.
I wonder if .gov bothered to bid on their 'Monocular'. Prolly the cheapest way to get it back ...
Released in 1973, the fourth Tom Zé disk, All Eyes, brings a cover that today arouses controversy. Drafted according to the suggestion of the poet Pignatari Decius, a friend of Tom Zé, in order to confront the censorship of the Brazilian military regime, the image you want is a representation of an eye by balancing a marble in the anus of a woman. The boldness of the cover, one of the most awarded Brazilian music, just going unnoticed by the censors.
In 2001, nearly 200 Music Personality elected her in the Folha de S. Paulo, the second best of MPB cover of all time, behind only the first disc Dry & Wet group also released in 1973. In 2003, the disc was adopted as the subject of a special report in the British newspaper The Guardian.
The version originally released in relation to how it would have been produced to cover All eyes would then be demystified, but not completely untrue. At the time, the writer Reinaldo de Moraes worked as a studio assistant at E = mc2 advertising agency, which had as a partner the concrete poet Decius Pignatari, author of the idea of ??the cover of Tom Zé disk. The photo, commissioned the studio, was the responsibility of Reinaldo, who invited his girlfriend to model.
Fan of tropicalistas group Tom Zé integrated, the girl accepts the unusual proposal to let himself be photographed with a marble in the anus. Reinaldo de Moraes carries its German Praktica camera without flash, four Kodacolor ASA 100 film, two lamps and a marbles box, and addresses the "Road Retreat" motel with the model. Using the 50 mm lens reversed, to make the macro function, and 20 inches from the girl's body begins to click.
The next day, however, after examining the images by the agency and by Decius, a new solution is required to Reinaldo to alleviate the excess of evidence as to what was represented. In the second photo shoot, here comes the new idea: put the marble between the rosy lips of the girl. Lips pursed form friezes that much resemble what they should look like, but in a more subtle way.
All eyes must earn a reissue on vinyl, scheduled to hit stores in early October. The LP back to the market as part of the series Classic Vinyl, the Polysom, which obtained license of Warner Music, Continental recording the collection of the heir to the resumption of the work.
Link:
http://f508.com.br/o-dono-da-capa-todos-os-olhos/
Meus pêsames Troll.
hehe.
Honestly, yes, I was tempted to change my image of Homer President for glass ball in the ass.
Do not do it because I believe that anyone who changes things constantly has no personality.
hehe.
Penalty flag on the play.
10 yards for talking to yourself.
And who gives a shit-marble? Dumbest post I've read here yet.
It's all fun and games until someone gets an asshole in the eye...
Anyone left in the U.S. that DOES NOT believe our government is hopelessly inept?
Only a complete revolution can fix what ails us.
They are inept, but exceedingly deadly. As they fumble they'll be blowing holes in anyone that looks at them 'wrong'. And there's going to be a lot of people staring with pointed fingers.
Oh, joy, as I type, three humvees went down this little street. Desert Military Ops in civilian areas were supposed to be later weren't they?
This pales compared to the $65-$80 Billion in Medicaid/Medicare fraud loss out of a total budget of what, $360Billion.
Few care since it's OPM.
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Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 2014 = $1.187 Trillion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 2013 = $1.118 Trillion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 2000 = $413.12 Billion
Total--Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outlays 1998 = $379.95 Billion
Child's play. Thank God we've got Rumsfeld still looking for the $3 trillion in missing DOD expenses as he announced on 9/10/2001.
That kind of tracks with the number of illegal and legal third worlders migrating to the US.
Cost of a steak 1.00 now 7.99
Seems inflation of the fed is doing exactlly what they want.
You got a probem with it the Fed is who you have the bone to pick with.
Its not even OPM, its just debt. It never existed and will never be paid back. All gubmint expeditures are free.
First things first (as Jack said - the Ripper):
1- no government, there is a hodgepodge of interests.
You do not vote for your president, votes for a guy who will vote in another, and that yes, choose the President. This is insane!
2- you are fucked, most of the population is fat, sad thing.
3- their ATMs print paper money used to wipe his ass.
I will stop here, the other items I leave for Snyder.
hehe.
How well hasthat worked anywhere in modern times.
This shit only happens because of how good we got it.
Were spoiled rotten.
A 90 percent unemployment for about 10 years would be what it really takes to fix what ails America.
You can some pretty good deals on Craigslist.
Surviving the exchange can be somewhat problematic.
Our fucking tax dollars at work, yet again!! Are we a banana republic yet, mommy?
Since 1954. One meeting is all it took.
Nah ... a banana republic is run better.
Way beyond banana. Cheez Doodle Republic?
JIEDDO was a sweet gig for some; a massive transfer of public monies into private hands.
btw, Truth in Sunshine: I gave you an up arrow and it gave you an up and down arrow. WTF? Sorry 'bout that. Wuzz up wid dat ZH?
No big deal. Somebody voted him down the same time you voted up. You can reverse your up arrow to a down arrow and vice versa.
Looks like the army people in charge were on a sex party paid by ISIS.
Wonder how many peices of used US arms and equipment are being traded right now overseas by arms dealers?
welcome to Armenia ;-)
Ever since eBay started listing Tu-95 Bear bombers, a thermal monocular is nothing special. /s
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/for-sale-on-ebay-o...
I thought about bidding on one of those TU-95 Bear Bombers and then realized I did not have the runway to land the fucker, sigh, would have made a nice play house for the kids.
So how many "heroes" are thieves? Is there a count?
Utter and complete lack of accountability at every of government . Son in law drives a snow plow in winter. He helps maintain parks and streets in summer. He makes 80 - 90 k a year with benefits that make your head spin. 12 grade education. WTF? He had the nerve to complain about only a 3 percent raise this past year at MY Thanksgiving table. It got a chilly reception .
As long as we keep feeding this beast with 6 months of our sweat every year nothing changes. Just think of this next time you grocery shop. You are paying for your groceries and some other overweight schlep with an EBT card. When you ask him why he buys junk food with your dollars don't let him give you any shit about why you question him.
We are well and truly fucked. We are truly and well fucked! "Can you dig it ?"
Now they are killing the middle class, how are they going to keep up paying basically a laborer $80-$90 k a month with benefits?
They will find out sooner and later when even .gov is forced to let go people. They can't keep this illusion going forever.
Your comment is absolutely right. Congress makes rules as they go, but the fundamental laws governing life will not change, no matter what they think.
Here are some numbers:
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Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 2014 = 580.13 Billion
Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 2013 = $609.4 Billion (Down from $650 B)
Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 2000 = $283 Billion
Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 1998 = $257.9 Billion
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Total--Military Personnel Outlays under DOD 2014 = $148.92 Billion
Total--Military Personnel Outlays under DOD 2013 = $150.8 Billion
Total--Military Personnel Outlays under DOD 2000 = $75.9 Billion
Total--Military Personnel Outlays under DOD 1998 = $68.9 Billion
Total--Operation and Maintenance under DOD 2014 = $244.86 Billion
Total--Operation and Maintenance under DOD 2013 = $259.7 Billion (Obviously not enough money to fix everything)
Total--Operation and Maintenance under DOD 2000 = $105.9 Billion (Before the wars)
Total--Operation and Maintenance under DOD 1998 = $92.8 Billion
Total—Procurement under DOD 2014 = $106,73 Billion
Total—Procurement under DOD 2013 = $114.9 Billion
Total—Procurement under DOD 2000 = $51.6 Billion
Total—Procurement under DOD 1998 = $48.2 Billion
Total—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation under DOD 2014 = $65.42 Billion
Total—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation under DOD 2013 = $66.9 Billion
Total—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation under DOD 2000 = $37.6 Billion
Total—Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation under DOD 1998 = $37.4 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2014 = $9.84 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2013 = $12.32 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2012 = $14.55 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2011 = $19.92 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2010 = $21.17 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2009 = $17.61 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2008 = $11.56 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2007 = $7.90 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2006 = $6.25 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2005 = $5.33 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2004 = $6.31 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2003 = $5.85 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2002 = $5.06 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2001 = $4.98 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2000 = $5.11 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 1999 = $5.52 Billion
And separate from DoD is the following:
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2014 = $154.05 Billion
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2013 = $143.6 Billion
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2000 = $50.1 Billion
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 1998 = $45.6 Billion
Total—International Assistance Program Outlays 2014 = $49.37 Billion
Total—International Assistance Program Outlays 2013 = $48 Billion
Total—International Assistance Program Outlays 2000 = $25.7 Billion
Total—International Assistance Program Outlays 1998 = $26 Billion
Total--Department of Homeland Security Outlays 2014 = $53.81 Billion
Total--Department of Homeland Security Outlays 2013 = $66.5 Billion
Total--Department of Homeland Security Outlays 2000 (FEMA) = $3.9 Billion
Total--Department of Homeland Security Outlays 1998 (FEMA) = $2.9 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2014 = $138.63 Billion (What?)
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2013 = $133.7 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2012 = $128.4 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2010 = $113.9 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2008 = $103.6 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2006 = $99.8 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2004 = $89.2 Billion (what, 6% a year?)
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2002 = $79.6 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 2000 = $71.8 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 1998 = $66 Billion
Total--Office of Personnel Management Outlays 1997 = $64 Billion
I literally watched 6 public workers trade a mini-chainsaw back and forth to cut a few small tree limbs. One would cut, the remainder would take turns taking it to the truck. There were 3 trucks. The foreman sat in his the entire time. Over the course of a couple hours i'd say maybe a dozen branches no bigger than 1" diamter were cut. Only other thing that was worse were the 3 guys that spent the ENTIRE day with rakes on an already smooth baseball infield. And to think of the $1000's I sent these puke bastards every year at the threat of having my home sold if I don't.
Oh, and let's not forget all the worthless fuks I know that work on the military base in jobs that are 'supposed' to be physically demanding. Most of them are alcoholics, a couple of them can't even walk up stairs------no kidding. A few of them call in sick a day every week to get a jumpstart on their sideline business.
Gov't is the only entity that can keep what they got going by taking what you got.
At least your son-in-law is doing useful, productive work. What does your average Goldman employee do to earn orders of magnitude more on looted taxpayer money?
True, but they should be working for a third of what he his making for that kind of work. And at least half of them need to be fired.
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We're doing it again, for ƒµç?'$ sakes!
The enemy of our enemy is not our friend! They are our ƒµç?¡?? enemy!
And we're gonna find that out soon enough, again!
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V-V
who is "our enemy"?
the people of Iran are not my enemy.
Still doesn't top the 2.3 trillion dollars the Pentagon lost in September the 10th 2001.
That's banana republic, military coup stuff right there.
You should probably take around $250k off to account for the cruise missile that found its way back to the Pentagon miraculously hitting the accounting records for the missing $$$ The gov is so lazy that they basically don't even try to come up with good stories anymore
We are so fucked...........
I swear to you I'm fed up with so many fools who do not know geography and world history!
In my country it is learned in the early years!
At seventeen, a guy who does not know the difference between Napoleon and Hitler historically is fucked.
A guy who does not know the difference between the Andes, the Himalayas and the Alps is an asshole!
Yes, I am Professor of Geography and Geography, according to Ives Lacoste, came the war.
There is no general knowledge of the terrain.
My namesake "Alexander - the great" not sent drones, walked and won.
Think about it, you are about to turn radioactive barbecue.
I feel peaceful in this talk, I'm in the middle of the Central Plateau of Brazil.
If Shit grab, will be above the equator.
hehe.
We sold some stuff to some folks
It just works with everything...
The DC US is so exceptional they're special.
The banksters need to repay us.
Just finished watching the agitprop "American Sniper."
A couple of comments:
1) He was not an American, but a murderous tool of the DC US and their Zionist masters' occupation and oppression of a foreign country and people.
2) It was documentary of the DC US', and their Zionist masters', war crimes and crimes against humanity.
3) It was a documentary of America's, and we American's, future at the hands of the same DC US criminals.
I had the option last night to watch either "American Sniper" or "Triumph of the Will". I opted for Triumph since I think better acting and less propaganda.
LOL, I can't believe it but I have to agree with a Nazi.
This quarter at UCLA we will be studying the Art Spiegelman Maus books and I think I'll bring up the rise of fascism in the United States of America to find out what the conscensus is among the students. I wonder how many have been restricted from entering their homes by the LAPD. Best to get them acquainted with the onset of the next holocaust in the western world. I mention western world because the NWO has killed over 2,000,000 in the last 10 years and 450,000 children during the two Iraq wars. It is about to get much worse and maybe there is some chance of preventing it from happening here in the United States. But I don't think so. What I do think is that money and equipment will pour in from China, Russia, and various oligarchs that oppose the NWO once the atrocities begin here.
The US internal security forces did not buy 1.5 billion rounds of ammo to protect us from external threats.
That fuckin' monocular was not new it had fingerprints all over it.
I sent that shit back to Hillary and eBay made her give me a refund.
Joking aside. Some of these bastards deserve a brief court martial, a malboro and a blindfold.
.GOV paid $750M but it was probably all sold for less than $250M.
Not only was it stolen, smuggled, sold illegally; but, the proceeds were of course not declared to the ol' IRS.
These people are guilty of serial felonies and transgressions of federal security clearances and military code: but no one will ever be brought to justice as every detail made public would erode public trust and respect for politicians, the military, the troops, and the justice system.
Small government means less of what is taken by govenment is stolen by greedy bureaucrats and praetorian criminals.
I suspect anyone capable of thought already has their public trust eroded; the rest can't be bothered to think and they are now the majority.
That seems to be the point of this whole charade.
haha fuckheads.
Is this real life?? yep.
Nothing better than the US Government getting caught fencing stolen goods.
I'm betting some Nuclear warheads just go missing June-July. Honest I parked them right there, they did a Jon Corzine and just vaporized.
"Lindsey, what are you working on?"
"Uhh, nothing, John."
"That looks similar to the nukes we could carry on aircraft when I was in the Navy."
"Really? What a coincidence."
I bet there's some guy in the white house who makes $7k per month while working part time. The rest of his time is spent playing golf.
38k per month
and more than 1 guy. I saw about 100 last time I was there.
There is also a huge staff who arrive early. Who would want that job? You have to live in DC, get up early, and go downtown, fighting the crowds headed for the mosque and dawn prayer.
If I were Vlad, I'd have one on the payroll.
I wonder if any of it is still on sale...
I sure hope they do not come looking for air compressors or lawn mowers.
One time on base, I found 20 HF radios they had tossed into a dumpster. Shit Uncle Scam pays top dollar for. I took one back to the shop, plugged it in to a power supply and dummy load. The bitch fired right up.
"Calling CQ. This is the Nightstalker. We have fished your president out of the water after his plane crashed."
"Sector Savannah, Nightstalker. You are over your limit. Throw him back."
"Roger."
I guess if your equipment is being paid for by the Tax payer you don't have to be too careful with it, when your finished with it just chuck it away or sell it to a local, always another one in stores.
FUBAR
tic toc
and you MOFO neo-cons want to go to war with RU
you'll lose the gear before you get there.
doomed
and good riddance
Very simple program: The equipment is looted by the Crime Syndicate, who in turn supply other Crime Syndicate bad guys.
Ukrainian soldiers also sell "their" equipment ("nonlethal" weapons, what is it a nonlethal weapon????) on a secondary market, heavy weapons to the two republics, basically everything, what can be found in UA army is for sale.
Even the latest radar technology to locate artillery and mortar have been lost.
I sspet they are now in China or Russia.
free shipping, awesome
Poetic justice to the morally corrupt and bankrupt system that loots, rapes and pillages "everyone" and "everything"!...
"They have no code" A few Good Men
All you dummies who try to convince us that resistance is futile need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Wonderous high tech crap is more of a liabililty than an asset to the OPPRESSOR.
This is not ineptitude, this is intentional.
There is a difference.
If windows were broken to remove the equipment when it was stolen then it is double bullish.
Also - this sort of contradicts the recent reports that American entrepreneurship is on the decline.
We sold some shit to some folks.
What difference does it make anyway.
If you want your universal thermal monocular you can keep...........
Who says the guy selling it stole it?
'it was listed on Ebay, under a zero-feedback ID...*snort!'
I wish I could throw a monkey-wrench into this whole thing by bidding, winning the item, then leaving feedback saying the quality of this sellers military surplus has deteriorated, and he should just stick to chemicals and munitions because he was much better at that.
Then, using Ebay's new 6-month money-back return policy, send it back for a full refund half a year later.
Well, I DID notice that the seller is not located in China, so maybe it's for real.
0 bids lol. should of called it a universal ithermal imonocular and dat shit be gone by now.
But White Republican devils want to cut Food Stamps because there is so much abuse in the system.
Damn it, already went over what I was willing to pay for it...
What happened to Ukraine's suitcase nukes, lost in the 90s, after the USSR broke up?
More recently saw a story on some military site ... the Pentagon wants more money to upgrade its intelligence gathering systems which they claim is not up to what private security firms have... how about taking some of the NSA budget .. or better yet.. sell the old garbage on Ebay to get the funds.. some enterprising sot is doing it .. might as well make it legal. Pentagon has always been a black hole as far as money and equipment goes.. they will hunt some pfc down who misplaced his rifle during Nam but let crap like this pass . typical. This link is to interview with scholar Anthony Sutton .. scholar at Hoover Institute until he started stepping on powers that be in a big way .. eventually ended up as a recluse who would not give interviews... have never seen anyone take on the PTB like this guy .. worth a watch.... done in the late 70s but pertinent today ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEVOIO4TbZs
Hey anyone fly in today??..there's B-2 in the parking lot with it's lights on.