Reply With QuoteOK, do a garage-sale of non-lethal stuff to airsofters, reenactors, fanboys and camping-goers. I'm sure they can find a big place on the Pentagon parking lot.
DoD’s Next Crisis: Excess Inventory
Article continued @ Defense NewsDoD’s Next Crisis: Excess Inventory
May. 28, 2012 - 11:48AM | By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS
With billions of dollars in excess inventory stuffed in warehouses, and a flood of items expected to return from Afghanistan in the near future, the U.S. Defense Department is facing an inventory crisis without an easy way to eliminate extra items, a former director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) said.
That could translate to yet another cost that Pentagon planners have failed to foresee, and one they’ll have to address as the department tries to cut expenses.
Keith Lippert, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral who stepped down as DLA director in 2006, told an audience May 23 at the Defense Logistics and Materiel Readiness Summit in Alexandria, Va., that the inventory problem facing DoD is troubling given current fiscal pressures, and certain to get worse.
OK, do a garage-sale of non-lethal stuff to airsofters, reenactors, fanboys and camping-goers. I'm sure they can find a big place on the Pentagon parking lot.
How much of this stuff can be shifted through 'army disposal' stores?
....and one of those 'mine-resistant' trucks would be handy come the zombie apocolypse.
Probably will go to some allies *cough* Philippines *cough*
So they were either thinking the action to continue for years onwards or thought that equipment will become useless? Seems bit short-sighted other wise.yet another cost that Pentagon planners have failed to foresee
Hehe, yes, although I was thinking about to equip the MP.net Army of Doom with this stuff instead of handing it out to the airsoft guys.Originally Posted by TG211
What's also interesting to note is the sheer number of different MRAPs that have been or currently are in active service (in all its different variants) within the different branches:
- MaxxPro
- RG-31, RG-33, RG-33L
- Caiman 4x4, Caiman 6x6
- Cougar H, Cougar HE, Buffalo H
- M1117
- M-ATV
- Future JLTV?
Interesting.
Seems like feast or famine.
I know a guy flying for .mil who has gained more flying hours in a single month deployed than he does in a busy year flying when home.
There may be an overflow of some stuff, but I eckon some other stuff may be wearing out a lot faster than the bean counting planners anticipated.
Put me down for a couple counter zombie wagons.
Send it to Scotland, we'll find a use for it, soon.
State national guards could really use a lot of this inventory
I do hope so
If they want to clear out some room getting rid of some old .30 carbine ammo for cheap, give me a call!
Also need 2 more pairs of BDU pants.
A new war would solve the problem.
What can ya say, some people just live to complain about defense spending. I've got pics in an old book on the USAF that shows airfields stuffed to overflowing with thousands of aircraft back from, well, everywhere at the end of WWII. There were probably people who whined then too.
I think the multiple MRAP types came from the fact that they took everything they could when the IED problem came up in Iraq. So every company built one.Hehe, yes, although I was thinking about to equip the MP.net Army of Doom with this stuff instead of handing it out to the airsoft guys.
What's also interesting to note is the sheer number of different MRAPs that have been or currently are in active service (in all its different variants) within the different branches:
- MaxxPro
- RG-31, RG-33, RG-33L
- Caiman 4x4, Caiman 6x6
- Cougar H, Cougar HE, Buffalo H
- M1117
- M-ATV
- Future JLTV?
I've always thought this to be a problem. Doesn't the US army have some 6,000 Abrams despite only a very small number of those actually serving in formations?
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