[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Rape is a heinous offense, but "ongoing pilfering in the motor pool" is the way the Army works.

I agree. Rape in a war zone should defintely get the max penalty which is death under the UCMJ. As far as pilfering, I never snuck up to the ward room on the midwatch and made a ham sandwich while we were underway. Never.

Of course our shipmate did get caught doing that and got busted from E5 to E4 and then 2 weeks later got his promotion to E6 verified when the results came back. DOH!!! The Captain was former enlisted and had a heart and gave back his E5 chevron and so he got to take the promotion anyway.

[LouD]

I'm not talking about pilfering equipment for personal benefit. I'm talking about how units get the equipment they need to operate.

I had an additional duty once as NBC NCO for a new unit we were bringing online. We had a classic scrounger supply sergeant, and he helped us get every single piece of equipment we needed through "unofficial" means - The official supply authorization process took almost a year. Once we got the official stuff, we swapped our unofficial NBC room with other units for a bunch of other stuff we needed.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I never mail-ordered some lock picks, and stole cheese-cake and frozen tacos from the Goat Locker every night while I was in the gulf. That would have been wrong.