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After audits to confirm proper procurement and disposal at a disposal, reclaimation center called DRMO (?) the records would have been kept till the next audit. Supply and Equipment NCO's and OIC's at individual squadrons would have kept records IAW directives for record keeping which I believe was two years. Active and inactive files for NF1 and NF2 items which related to accountable hard property like typewriters, desks, chairs and expendable office supplies like bond paper and pencils etc...

Just how I remember it....:o).

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Good question!

I worked for a DOE contractor in 1978 in the Property Department. At that time, every electric typewriter, especially IBM Selectrics, were considered capital equipment and had to be individually numbered and inventoried periodically just like cars, lathes, and buildings. Procurement was done from a special capital equipment budget (i.e., you couldn't decide to go buy one with operating funds). Disposal rules were quite rigid, involving multiple approvals, making the item available to other users inside the agency and beyond, then attempting to sell the item on the outside.

I can't imagine DOD being much more lenient on their rules, so I bet that some accounting geek in DoD has a 1973 inventory for the equipment that was owned by that ANG unit, along with when it was purchased, what building and room it was in, and who the custodian was.

It would have probably been easier to get rid of those old jets than an old typewriter.

As another point of reference, I inherited an electronic desktop calculator at work that was purchased about that time (1971 IIRC). The numbers were little lights that were in the shape of the numbers 0-9, stacked in front of each other so the correct one would glow and you could read the answer. It added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided AND would perform a square root! Cost: $7,000. This was so early in the digital age and electronic items were so expensive that I cannot imagine there being a lot of these elaborate typewriters around an ANG unit.

The DUnces are eating their own over fontgate. If anyone of them mentions that there are mulitple flaws in the document that go beyond the CBS defense, they are automatically labeled a Right Wing Shill by the others and some of them are getting banned!