Grassley has questions about the Air Force's $1,200 "coffee cups"

[underpants]

Grassley wants to know more about Air Force’s hot cup tab

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wants more information about an air base’s penchant for coffee cups that cost more than $1,200 each.

Grassley, as Fox News previously reported, originally questioned the procurement in an Oct. 2 letter to Wilson. Grassley’s letter cited a Sept. 26 Fox News report that in the past three years, the 60th Aerial Squadron at Travis Air Force Base in California had purchased dozens of cups for nearly $56,000. The cups can reheat liquids on board the Air Force’s fleet of cargo aircraft.

The squadron reported that the cups have handles that break easily when dropped. Since replacement handles aren’t available, the whole cup has to be replaced. In 2016, the squadron said that it purchased 10 hot cups for $6,930, with the price for each surging from $693 to $1,220 in 2018 (The result: a total expenditure of $32,000 for 25 cups.)

She told Grassley that the Air Force has purchased 391 of these items at a total cost of $326,785 since 2016 — an average per-item cost of around $835.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-wants-to-know-more-about-air-forces-hot-cup-tab

[Turbineguy]

1. He just wants one too.

[SCantiGOP]

2. $1,200 sounds like a lot for one cup

But you can get a set of four at COSTCO for only $3,400.

[RainCaster]

5. Costco would sell me a self heating coffee keg with a lifetime guarantee for $267.95

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. What kind of fuckery is this?

[underpants]

4. They plug into the aircraft and make liquids hot again

They technological advances of the Air Force with this is simply amazing.

[The Polack MSgt]

13. The manufacturer is

Me and Mr. Jones Inc.

[EleanorR]

6. fox news?

Is this supposed to make grassley appear neutral or something? We all know better.

[underpants]

7. Just went over there to see how they were reporting on things

Of course THE CARAVAN is the top story. Then I saw this story and the one about the mysterious things on the beach:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211322324

[bobbieinok]

8. Grassley 1st won senate seat by attacking Pentagon for paying outrageous prices

[DFW]

9. I bet I can answer his question without knowing any details about this

Lemme guess--the company that makes the cups contributes a lot of money to Republicans.

Am I getting warm?

[Hassler]

10. Senator Get-Off-My-Grassley now grumbling about stuff he doesn't pay for in order to distract.

[lame54]

11. He didn't get his cut

[oasis]

12. Drain the swamp.