[laplata]

ping

[rdcbn]

Win-win

Making a habit of not wasting bullets and fuel pays off in combat.

With budget cuts they are scarce due lack of funds.

In combat they are scarce because thats the way it is in combat.

[clintonh8r]

Marines have always “made do.” I know. I did it for four years. But this is disgraceful. The angry lesbian is hoarding ammo, probably to be used against us, while our warfighters go without. I have a bad feeling that this is a prelude to something very ugly.

[AZLiberty]

Related thread Retired Army Officer: DHS Must Surrender Their War Weapons to Dept. of Defense.

Is the next civil war going to be between Obama's "civilian national security force" (aka DHS) and the U.S. military?

[Christie at the beach]

The DHS looks to be like Obama’s gestapo.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

~Senator Barack Hussein Muhammed Obama, Jr. (D-IL) 2008

[Jack Hammer]

Funny, the White House seems to have plenty of money to send Obama’s girls away on pricey vacations at taxpayer expense, and countless millions in “aid” to give to Syria, Egypt, and the Palestinians - and yet we’re told there isn’t funding for Americans to tour the People’s House or offer the Marine Corps sufficient ammunition for either training or combat.

Meanwhile, the DHS has more ammunition than it’ll use in ten years, unless they plan on wholesale executions of Americans.

Something stinks here. Something really, REALLY stinks.

[Domangart]

Here is how the game is played The branch has a table of allowances. You make your five year budget based on this if you use it or not. All this is consolidated and given to the House Armed Services Committee. They provide the funds to make the ammo this year. The Govt plant makes the ammo.

[Forty-Niner]

No problem....we still have our K-bars and bayonets!

[momincombatboots]

Part of my active duty was under Clintoon... Endless govt shut downs, no equipment. However, this time there are the brown shirts and DHS. I agree as a natural skeptic, this is a prelude to tyranny by both legislation and force. I used to cackle at the Bananna Republic posts, thinking it couldn’t happen here... I may have been overly optimistic.

[Candor7]

If the US Marines want DHS ammo and other ordnance, rest assured they will simply go and take them.

[Travis McGee]

Is this where the billions of bullets are going?

[Vermont Lt]

I recently had a conversation with an Army commander. He was telling me that a live fire exercise had been postponed. For lack of ammo.

Nice, huh?

[EricT.]

So the DOD can’t find any overpaid fat-ass civilians in the Pentagon to lay off instead of cutting troop supplies?

[Truth2012]

So lets pretend we are playing Risk. let me think.. Spread the enemies army out all over the world, using up all of their ammo, resources and do all sorts of stuff that causes heavy damage to their moral, watching them die in battle or kill themselves- while I stockpile ammo and tanks, and build a zombie military of starving people addicted to free food- and take everyone’s guns, turn the food stamps off- flood the communities with criminals who will shoot for food.

Yea-I think that might work.

[NFHale]

Marines are NEVER “rattled”...

[libstripper]

FTA:

Additionally, the DHS is buying hollow-point bullets, which experts say are rarely used for training exercices. The DHS ordered 240,000 hollow-point rounds last month and has now placed an order for 360,000 more rounds.(Emphasis added.)

Remarkable. Now it turns out the HP rounds aren't generally used for training, possibly, IMHO, because they're about three times as costly per round as FMJ. That, of course, destroys much of the explanation for the HP purchases, meaning a straight explanation is that much more essential.