Comments by "" (@bdinaz) on "Exposing the Military Industrial Complex" video.

  1. It is more complex than what you see here. Best example was right after 9/11 half the congress people started showing up with boxes of stuff they said needed to be purchased immediately. It just so happened this gear was usually produced in their district by campaign donors. At first whole batches of this crap got purchased and shipped in to both Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of it was of dubious value. Then the formed a team to review this stuff to see if anyone even wanted it, and then shortly after that if it even had half a chance at functioning. In the meantime this gear was sent in to theater and was often just stuffed into Connexs to get it out if the way. We were always impressed when corporate guys back home trumpeted the gear they built, funded, and shipped over and was supposedly winning the war for us. Only we knew it filled multiple connexes never to be used. Always wondered what became of half of it as we left MANY connexes in place when we left.
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  2. One of our key problems is Acquisition officers must acquire something using their budget or their career ends. Simply solving the problem with new TTPs does not spend the budget and their world ends if an approprited line item is not exhausted. We are starting to go into end of fiscal year freak out about now. Don't let them catch you with money on the books....
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