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It always amazes me how much money the military dumps down the toilet, and then they turn around and get totally anal retentive about spending a few bucks on rounds for their soldiers to practice with. It's sheer idiocy.

I was in one unit where they spent nearly a hundred grand on a designer tent that would house all the division support staff under one roof while in the field. That way they could talk to each other.

In itself, not a bad idea (or a necessary one), but at the same time they'd moan about the expense of rounds down range.

My unit was supposed to know the procedures for firing a RAP round.
Needless to say, we'd never seen one let alone actually fired one.
They were too expensive apparently.
We were told we could have 500 HE rounds, or one RAP round.
Yet we were supposed to be up on it.

Amazes me too how much money gets spent on little minor crap that is unneeded, and when something that is needed needs funding they whine about it.
My unit also suffered from 'bedgetitis'.
Our budget woudl shrink from year to year due to this stupidity: if we didn't spend it all this year, then they stated we didn't need it all the next year. I.E. if we didn't spend all 500 grand or so this year, they'd subtract whatever we had left from next year's budget so we'd have, say, 400 grand left over. But our budget fluctuated from year to year depending one whether or not we broke anything.

I was in one unit where they spent nearly a hundred grand on a designer tent that would house all the division support staff under one roof while in the field. That way they could talk to each other.

That way they could all be taken out by the same scud.