Posted on 12/11/2017 4:55:42 PM PST by Kalamata
The U. S. military has more than 44,000 troops across the globe that the Pentagon claims it cannot track, according to a recent report.
“We are not at a point where we can give numbers other than those officially stated,” said Army Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman.
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We were told that if you get caught we will disavow any knowledge of your movements.
so does this mean we have 44,000 troops that they cant find, they don’t know where they are...are they AWOL ???
or do we have 44,000 troops too many and they are assigned to stations around the world and they don’t know just who they are ...are they spies ???
As long as the Ugly, Fat, Stinking, unindicted criminal Cow is alive, nothing illegal and unethical is beyond the grasp of her ambition for money and power.
She just refuses to go away!
No stretch of the imagination is necessary.
Bad enough I had to work for Carter LOL
Obama and Clinton should be in jail for Benghazi and the Arab spring
They lit the north of Africa on fire to invade Europe
Jason Rother. I don’t think any Marine NCO hasn’t had that name pounded into his skull, at least when I was there.
For years after he was left to die when his unit lost track of him at Twentynine Stumps, we counted every Marine on every movement, twice. Lord help the Company Gunny who couldn’t let the boss how many warm bodies were on the bus on demand and instantly.
The idea that the DOD could just drop that many folks from units that are supposedley submitting morning reports baffles me, but I guess the other branches may not consider it that big a deal, and they have many more noses to count.
Still, the idea of “oh well” being the response to having 44,000 missing in the paper shuffle makes my inner Sergeant all twitchy.
I expect that “the very strange accounting procedure I [SecDef Mattis] inherited” is a variation of the 179 day temporary duty (TDY) that was done on a continual basis during the Vietnam war as a way to have more troops in country than the max number authorized by Congress. And that same procedure has been done during Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places where there were limits on the number of US troops allowed to be there—either by the US Congress or by the hosting country.
There is plenty of corruption in the military, unfortunately. It wouldn’t be a surprise to find a lot of ghost soldiers that some people are pocketing the pay of. I wonder how many fake retirees there are.
Thanks for the mention of your situation, and how hard this is to fathom. It is for me also, and I haven’t served in the armed services.
About all I will do now is wait until more comes out on this. I can’t imagine it will just be buried.
Of course long before that there was war brewing in Adulucia, Morrocco, Algiers and Libya
Al Queda Emerged in the 80s in North Africa, Margret Thatchers son was lost in the maddness in the Desert during Paris to Dakar rally, Ghadaffi got all bold.
They just lose people? Are they unnamed black ops? Doubtful.
Perhaps left over Zero trannies who changed their names?
Or it could be people collecting money for doing nothing. Been done before, like in Chicago. Or maybe siphoning more money to left wing causes. Corruption.
While I suspect that the 5% figure is rounded up, there will always be errors, even in HR.
So the Pentagon may presume that 5% of its 2,100,000 active duty and reserve personnel could be fraud, and take solace in the fact that only 44,000 were considered fraud instead of 105,000 potential fraudulent personnel.
The US government is just too big.
For some reason my BS meter is pegged.
I recall an old scam where an officer would show up in theater for about 3 days at the end of one month and beginning of the next, and then draw two months combat pay for the time he spent lolling around the officer’s club at the airfield. That may be part of the ‘strange accounting procedure’.
Well, the delusional Kenyan with no birth certificate and his Affordable Health Care Act has existed for 7 years, in a manner of speaking...
...and the carcass of its complete and utter failure speaks for itself.
Epic Democratic and Progressive Fail! They will own it forever.
26 minutes ago: http://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-text-of-a-letter-from-the-president-to-the-spe-1821203437
What better way to launder/redirect money than through the defense appropriations for servicemembers' payroll? You're talking upwards of hundreds of millions per year. That's a lot of easily hidden cash. Looking into where the deposits go isn't a bad idea.
/tinfoil off
Just do a roll call and find out who’s awol.
doubt if this is accurate but war has been waged for centurys.
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