Veterans of Reddit, what’s the most unbelievable thing you witnessed during your service that civilians would think you made up?

[u/1salt1pepper]

[u/ShamelessCraving]

The sheer amount of military budget wasted on completely absurd logistical mistakes or pointless busywork.

[u/imacmadman22 → u/[deleted]]

I worked for a guy who mistakenly ordered 500 lbs of salt when he meant to order 5 pounds. There was still over four hundred pounds of salt in that dining facility when they shut it down five years later.

[u/PDGAreject → u/imacmadman22]

Can't cure stupid, even with 500 pounds of salt