guess you can’t believe every extreme you read on free republic. If I find something that sticks with me, my radar should have checked it out. Thanks for the correction. There definitely wasn’t enough auditing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“There definitely wasn’t enough auditing in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
War zones can be lax. Sometimes the problem is with locals whose cooperation you want. Sometimes it’s our own people looking to enrich themselves and figuring that no one will notice. It may take time but often someone does notice.
My dad was in the Army from WWII through the beginnings of Vietnam. In WWII as the Army was moving quickly sometimes there were supply depots where items were simply piled up in huge heaps and you could take what you needed- quartermasters weren’t always able to set up an accounting system quickly enough. In Vietnam you were dealing with a different problem. Locals who wanted to get paid off. American contractors who diverted funds or sold equipment.