Our military under democrats is always underfunded.
The Marines for decades seem to be even more underfunded.
Every petty officer and above in the Navy knew how to use comshaw to swap for needed stuff with other Navy guys to keep their ships and offices running.
See definition of comshaw in the link below with many other interesting Navy terms:
From the article, one squadron resorted to procuring an out of production landing gear door . . . from an aviation museum.
I believe that it was the Marines who elevated cumshaw into an MOS. Because Marines are always at the end of the line for appropriations, every unit has a cumshaw specialist, a scrounger, whose job it is to get what is needed without getting caught.
Knew a few cumshaw artists and I studied under them.