what a nice way to "support the troops"

[datasuspect]

excerpt:

"Theft of military equipment is legendary among American war veterans, and the act has its own lexicon. In past wars some called it "scrounging," while others called it "midnight requisitions" and "liberating supplies," said writer and Vietnam War veteran Robert Vaughan.

Military bureaucracy combined with the reality of warfare has long made "scrounging" a necessity for soldiers trying to get a job done, Vaughan said. Stealing is justified, he said, because everything being taken is U.S. government property and is being used toward the war effort.

He recalled that while his unit was serving in a remote area in Vietnam, headquarters in Saigon repeatedly denied his unit's request for high-power generators because it said there were none in stock. But on previous trips to Saigon, Vaughan had seen dozens of generators stacked in a holding area at headquarters.

Frustrated, he drove to Saigon one afternoon, posed as a captain from another unit and gave a guard a forged requisition to get the generators."


link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412120352dec12,1,3302014.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[Crunchy Frog]

1. I remember a number of M*A*S*H episodes

that dealt with that sort of situation. The best one was when they were trying to get an incubator.

There was also the one where Radar was mailing a jeep home one part at a time.

[Solly Mack]

2. I've heard it called "relocation of government property"

and "Besides, can the hand really steal from it's foot?"

MASH, the TV show, often showed the unit having to "reroute" needed eqipment their way.


"Scrounging" is a fact in both "war" and time of peace.


That any soldier could be arrested for getting the materials they need.....because Rumsfeld and Shrub sent them over without needed materials, and can't seem to replace needed materials when used up....is just one more outrage from this bunch of assholes.