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**eI7iqNot** · 02-07-2010, 02:48 AM

Now that this has hit the media, his congressman and or senator will get involved and the paperwork will catch up with the facts and the equipment will be written off.

My guess is that it happens a lot, war zones are not the most reliable places to make sure that all the paperwork is processed before you are medicinally evacuated and sooner or later some accounting clerk does his job and files for the repayment of items not properly written off and this brings things to a head and then the write offs get completed and the issue dies.

All it proves is that the military is a large bureaucracy and sometimes stupid things happen in a large bureaucracy.

Not really an item worthy of discussion unless someone wants to blame Obama because it happened while he was Commander in Chief and then someone will weigh in with the fact that it happened under Bush as well and the flame war will begin all over again.

02-07-2010, 02:48 AM	#7
eI7iqNot Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 365 Senior Member	Now that this has hit the media, his congressman and or senator will get involved and the paperwork will catch up with the facts and the equipment will be written off. My guess is that it happens a lot, war zones are not the most reliable places to make sure that all the paperwork is processed before you are medicinally evacuated and sooner or later some accounting clerk does his job and files for the repayment of items not properly written off and this brings things to a head and then the write offs get completed and the issue dies. All it proves is that the military is a large bureaucracy and sometimes stupid things happen in a large bureaucracy. Not really an item worthy of discussion unless someone wants to blame Obama because it happened while he was Commander in Chief and then someone will weigh in with the fact that it happened under Bush as well and the flame war will begin all over again.
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