The problem with this is that some high-up brass in another state doesn’t know what each base/lower unit needs. I’ve seen this problem with my Guard unit. Some of our training is localized, some organized by Brigade or higher. And when the higher units do the organizing, we ended up with some drills where we didn’t know if we’d have enough ammo to run through all the training for everyone. Other field drills, we got to go burn ~9000 9mm because we had extra and the paperwork to turn it back in just isn’t worth it.
Some stuff, yes, is better at a higher level. But some logistics just can’t be properly handled on a large scale, where people don’t know what’s going on, have little experience with it, and have ever increasing paperwork requirements to go through.
That’s how I got my Small Arms Expert ribbon - Navy Reserve Senior Chief called me up and said, “You still wanna qualify on the M-16? Get out to the range, cuz we’ve got 80 people’s worth of ammo and only 40 people.”
Colonel, USAFR