Reply #33: Plenty, at the start of this mess [View All]

[MADem]

They ordered up something like a couple of hundred thousand (some no doubt used for the "enemy") and five thousand new "personnel transfer tubes." The latter, you may not know, are reusable--they steam and scrub them out and send them back for the next poor bastard.

Part of the reason for the flag draping (held on with bungee cords) is because they get dinged up--they are not all shiny and new after a few trips back and forth. The servicemember is transferred to a civilian casket prior to interment...