[GovernmentShrinker]

Pardon me for asking the obvious question, but why is the military leaving huge quantities of valuable scrap metal lying on the ground, while our government forks over welfare checks, food stamps, and housing subsidies to unskilled workers who “can’t” find jobs? Can’t we send able-bodied people around these sites with metal detectors, during non-combat training times, to pick up the scrap and call in reports of unauthorized intruders? Pay them 50% of the proceeds from the scrap, use the rest to cover admin costs and return any extra funds to the military.

[JRandomFreeper]

As a young Sgt in the USAF (yes, that long ago, back when there was an E-4 Sgt in the USAF), I ran some details out in the deserts near Holloman, picking up brass.

/johnny

[Chinstrap61a]

"why is the military leaving huge quantities of valuable scrap metal lying on the ground, while our government forks over welfare checks, food stamps, and housing subsidies to unskilled workers who “can’t” find jobs?"

The "military" is using these areas to train for war - which means that many of these items are live ordnance. We use well-trained professionals to find and dipose of this stuff, rather than let some unskilled sorts blow themselves and their trailers to bits.

Pretty clear you've never worn a uniform, or you would've figured that one out. (That and "military" is an adjective, not a noun.)

[wastedyears]

But that’s the intelligent thing to do.

Not to mention all the people they could pay to reload all the brass.