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I’m sure Hegseth is a great guy and will do a good job chasing the perverts and DEI weasels out of the military. Then what? What’s his plan to bring this behemoth CF under control?

A great guy but no more informed than what you’ll find in VFW hall across the country.

Is Musk and the DOGE able to audit the Pentagon without some DoD or Congressional authorization?

1 posted on 11/16/2024 11:04:57 AM PST by hardspunned
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A great guy but no more informed than what you’ll find in VFW hall across the country.


I’m not sure about that. He is educated above average, plus being involved in the news business, he has to be pretty well informed about what’s going on in the world in general, and our country especially.


2 posted on 11/16/2024 11:08:38 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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For 3.5 years, I worked for a Pentagon agency and could show precisely where the $800k I spent yearly for the unit went. I think 90 percent of organizations could do that.


3 posted on 11/16/2024 11:11:02 AM PST by pepsionice
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A simple way to solve the problem, just cut the budget by the amount not able to be accounted for each year.


4 posted on 11/16/2024 11:11:16 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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Simple fix. Cut their budget every year by the amount they can’t account for the previous year.


5 posted on 11/16/2024 11:14:02 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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They made progress. The found a missing comma on a spreadsheet.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 11:15:47 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Lol

Before posting you might want to check the bio of your target, You could not be more wrong if you were trying. Someone posted a comparison of the last 10 Defense Secs. He is better qualified then any of them wore considering they were all products of the Military Industrial complex. Hegseth was an infantry officer with front line combat experience in modern war. He is exactly who DOD needs in charge

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

If we want to fix something we don’t put one of the clowns who broke it back in charge,.


9 posted on 11/16/2024 11:18:14 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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"The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row"

Pete Hegseth should fired every single officer (even flag officers) responsible for those failed audits.

11 posted on 11/16/2024 11:20:38 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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Every year they dodge accountability is considered progress.


12 posted on 11/16/2024 11:21:06 AM PST by PTBAA
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He’ll need deputies, Chester, Newly AND Festus. He chases the bad guys out of Dodge, and they crunch the numbers.


13 posted on 11/16/2024 11:32:08 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Failed to provide sufficient information to auditors to form an accurate opinion.

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14 posted on 11/16/2024 11:33:06 AM PST by Vaduz
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Republicans campaign on being fiscally conservative.

Why on earth would the Republicans keep funding a government agency that fails 7 audits in a row?

That is the definition of insanity.

Where’s the lie?


16 posted on 11/16/2024 11:39:19 AM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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The Secretary sets policy. The deputies and staff perform the tasks. The Secretary can enforce good work place practices.


17 posted on 11/16/2024 11:40:49 AM PST by vaskypilot
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From the article: “This year, the audit cost the Defense Department $178 million and involved some 1,700 auditors

Average salary then of the 1700 auditors was $104.706. Simple math. For that amount the audit should have defined the specific problems so immediate corrective action could be taken.


19 posted on 11/16/2024 11:44:17 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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Then what?

He needs to assign a senor general (not eligible to retire for several years)to the task and empower him with the authority and resources he requires to make it happen.

Tell him at the outset if DOD fails the next audit he will receive a general discharge.

22 posted on 11/16/2024 11:56:57 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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That’s not just Hegseth. Ramaswamy and Musk are going to help.


23 posted on 11/16/2024 12:13:35 PM PST by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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“YAY. We only failed slightly less than usual.”
“YAY. Our policies are working. More people are on welfare than ever.”

Government maffs


25 posted on 11/16/2024 12:33:47 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Relax. The eighth audit should do the trick.


26 posted on 11/16/2024 12:34:57 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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It’s that “progress” BS that costs so much. Too much social engineering going on in the military.


27 posted on 11/16/2024 12:35:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's great to hear the illegal aliens saying that Trump isn't their president. Easier to Deport!)
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Someone is stealing. Find and arrest them.


28 posted on 11/16/2024 1:00:24 PM PST by The Free Engineer
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He is going to clean house big time!!


29 posted on 11/16/2024 1:06:37 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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