He was correct. You could almost time when the fiscal year was about to end. That was when we in Supply were ordered to ‘relocate’ lots of unused or expired items. This so we could ask for increased funding for the next few quarters.
The air force has a variation on that. Whenever a transport plane went down, hundreds of tons of material from all squadrons on the base, were on that plane.
I grew up as a boy in GITMO in the 60’s.
They would cut Jeeps in half in order to ask for replacement vehicles. It was normal to see a sailor driving a “personal” Jeep that was welded back together.