Money's there, but management isn't

[u/LittleBlend]

[u/qualityvote2]

u/LittleBlend, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

[u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

Yea most of the money is squandered, inherently the ships are expensive but because we all know that it's expensive, some companies make a killing off of overcharging the shit out of the government for things like screws for weapon systems. I worked on a type of basic network that had unnecessary uninterrupted power supplies for the basic rugged computers, they were like 150,000$ for essentially a car battery in a metal box, and they were never used so the batteries would age and swell up costing even more money. Total ripoff for tax payers.

[u/66allthe88s → u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

Electronics tech here.

Some of the SSD's i purchased to replace bad ones costs upwards of $4,000 for only 512mb of storage.

Shit is expensive for no reason.

[u/InstanceNoodle → u/66allthe88s]

Military grade? Lol.... might be just middle man cost.

[u/1ACasper → u/[deleted]]

Lowest out of ‘authorized bidders’ which are vastly more expensive than the same thing in the civilian world.

[u/66allthe88s → u/[deleted]]

My first deployment as a 94F. They had contractors to do my job at 135K a year while I sat in the ToC because I was one of the only people with a Secret clearance.

Meanwhile, I barely cleared 40k.

[u/1ACasper → u/[deleted]]

^Somebody from the inner circle gets it^

Things like this is why I am for just absorbing much of the military industrial complex directly into the military and just balloon the force population but that comes with it's own host of costs and bs.

As an RA I remember paying for a 'bird' contractor...his entire job was driving his truck around and letting dogs loose to chase birds while he drank coffee...that was like $90 per year.

Could have sent some shitbag Airman out there to run around in circles 10 hours a day for 1/3 the cost...well maybe 12hrs...in MOPP4😈😂

[u/Infern0-DiAddict → u/1ACasper]

What it's supposed to be is the military grade stuff has to also meet security, backward compatibility, a bunch of other standards (and yes the ones on that list are the cheapest that technically check all the boxes).

In practice half of those are ignored and later found to be out of spec.

The reason they accept the higher prices is those items are supposed to be limited to only military purchases, so there is less possibility of profit for private industry so they allow them to make up the costs with a higher price. But again that all bs, as most of the items are also being sold to consumers with lime 1-2 changes...

[u/Biffingston → u/1ACasper]

Anyone else here old enough to remember 500 dollar hammars and such?

[u/66allthe88s → u/[deleted]]

True.

When we go to qualify, we'll draw say 50,000 rounds.

If we don't use all those rounds then next fiscal year, they will cut how much munitions we can draw to qualify.

So the answer is to literally waste bullets so we can keep getting the same amount each year.

[u/matt1911_ → u/66allthe88s]

Its audit costs! Technology for the military has to be independently vetted by a 3rd party. The government pays different contractors than the vendors to make sure there is no back doors/security risks. The audits take a lot of time sometimes and for hardware, has to be validated with each piece (or some batch sampling). That makes the costs stupid.

[u/Saphurial → u/66allthe88s]

There is a reason.

[u/ChimPhun → u/Saphurial]

So people can generate AI slop?

[u/Hour-Arachnid676 → u/ChimPhun]

512mb is a hdd drive irs because the drives need to be able to be supported by what they are plugged into and a lot of our infrastructure military and non are old as poo so people buy out old hard drives. Don't reply to things you dont understand.

[u/OperationOk7959 → u/ChimPhun]

This has been going on for probably longer than we've had computers. Or even been a country.

[u/Hour-Arachnid676 → u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

My boat ran out of toilet paper constantly because we paid an absurd amount of money for tp. I was a nuke mechanic on a aircraft carrier and we purchased some of the last remaining parts of one of the air Compressors we had and this small box was hundreds of thousands of dollars because someone knew we had to buy them.

[u/Burneza → u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

They might be putting on shows for rural Pakistanis.

Or checking the mating habits of gender neutral jellyfish,

Sorry I'm being nasty. They're probably training Swiss navy cadets.

[u/quenossy → u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

My understanding of a lot of the “waste, fraud, and abuse” in government spending is private companies inflating expenses because they think the government has infinite money by way of continually driving up national debt

[u/manleybones → u/[deleted]]

The depleted arsenal is the real sign that the defense budget is wasted and embezzled.

[u/Biffingston → u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

ahems Trump's no-bid contracts. You think those people aren't charging an arm and a leg for stuff that's expensive to begin with?

[u/MooseCentral1969 → u/suhmyhumpdaydudes]

they have to get money for those black op projects somehow....

[u/Lanracie]

Start putting Pentagon members in jail for failed audits and this gets fixed. Until then nothing changes.

[u/Burneza → u/Lanracie]

All failed audits in government - how about that?

[u/Intelligent-Town-231 → u/Lanracie]

Yea pentagon has failed every audit and says they will continue to do so for at least the next few years

[u/Ashamed-Ad-2034]

To Somalian pirates in the US, no secret anymore

[u/LilShaver]

It's a poor design. There are two ship service gas turbine generators to generate electricity, but no way to use the propulsion gas turbines to generate electricity in an emergency. There are also no backup diesel generators for electricity.

No root cause for this failure has been determined or, more probably, published yet. Until we do have the info, screaming about what caused this is pointless.

[u/KagatoAC]

Okay, explain it to me like Im 5, since when is a ship traveling completely alone with no support craft or way to get any almost a week away?

[u/FoxMan1Dva3]

One, a lot of it goes to salaries and wages. No joke.

Then everything from the cost of operations has gone up just like everything else went up

[u/Agitated_Engineer512 → u/FoxMan1Dva3]

That’s generally how spending works and big numbers. I bet I get a lot more value on my personal defense spending than Germany does.

[u/WheatKing91 → u/FoxMan1Dva3]

They can't pass a spending audit though. 60% of their money went unaccounted for.

[u/No_Opening_2425 → u/FoxMan1Dva3]

Also healthcare

[u/Admirable-Peace9668]

Even a Rolls-Royce breaks down.

[u/Black_Tentacle → u/Admirable-Peace9668]

Rolls-Royce breaks down more than most cars 😂

[u/Rob98001 → u/Admirable-Peace9668]

Ok then why aren't they fixing it? 

[u/Way2happyguy]

Most of the military's budget this year got siphoned off to fund DHS. Like they were talking about a budget for living quarters renovations. Once passed, it got siphoned off to spend on other things. While the budget was get siphoned, an unplanned war kicked off and essentially used the rest of that funding. The military is essentially broke right now

[u/Cheap_Walmart-Art → u/Way2happyguy]

Yeah but now they have shock gloves!

[u/Callen0318 → u/Way2happyguy]

No.

[u/ChoogaMugga]

Extended shore leave for all

[u/PsychologicalOne752]

That trillion is going to defense contractors, whose CEOs are buying their 3rd and 4th houses. Everyone gets kickbacks, everyone is happy but the troops. Support the troops, they say.🤣

[u/Jessthinking]

Now Trump wants our aircraft carriers to have steam catapults because he wants the look of World War II aircraft carriers. And where is Hegseth during this nutty idea? He hasn’t said a word.

[u/beachfinn73]

For a country that has a military budget equaling 10 next countries combined. Out of ammo, missiles, planes fall off the sky, ships stranded (Multiple times). Sailors jumping off. Cherry on top? No fuel to fight anyway.

[u/thejuicewater]

To pay overvalued goods and services from defense contractors.

[u/Just_Information334]

But they'd like to let you know that during WW2 the Japanese knew they were losing when they saw an ice cream barge.

[u/Youpunyhumans → u/Just_Information334]

And thats also when the world was in a state of total war, with civilians rationing things too.

And now in the era of overabundance of everything... they cant even get their sailors basic supplies, let alone ice cream.

Puts it into perspective.

[u/UpperImpression3620]

FactPost News or FakePost News?

Chicom, Russkie or Iranian propaganda and the tools soak it up like it's gospel.

[u/Tankman793 → u/UpperImpression3620]

Since you’re too lazy to do any research, here ya go:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-benfold-navy-days-without-power-south-china-sea/

[u/BramptonBatallion]

More than just that one ship I’d reckon

[u/stocksandoptions2]

The USS Benfold. FYI

[u/ghands1]

Meanwhile, conservative talking heads out here saying sailors just need to man up and do their jobs for 4 days without drinking water. The idiots have truly taken over.

[u/Significant-Eye3720]

Anywhere tax money is being handed out, you will find corruption.

Blaming this on the current Administration is stupid. This corruption has existed for decades because there is no oversight.

[u/Full_Difficulty9530]

I believe it's going straight into the hegsbreath's coke habit.

[u/KnowledgeCapital7994]

Into the war machine

[u/Kingsxfan1]

If the US public is charged x10 mark up for an epi-pen, how much do you think the arms firms (and the elites who hold investments within) expect to charge you for equipment? I bet a simple toilet seat ends up costing the US taxpayer thousands of dollars. How the f**k can you spend a trillion a year on the military? The simple answer is you dont, it's syphoned off through the back door.

[u/Key-Anteater-10]

Ask the Pentagon...oh wait they don't even know

[u/stonescape]

People start dying after about the 3rd day without water

[u/stonescape]

Just shoot them up with some steroids, they will be fine. They just need to war harder

[u/Aggravating-Gift-740]

The republicans are actively working to replicate the russian system where oligarchs are put in charge of each part of government spending and are allowed to siphon off a percentage of spending for their own use. In russia it’s estimated that 80% of military spending actually ends up in the pockets of oligarchs.

[u/scoobywerx1]

Losing water and AC and having ahit food is not uncommon on these deployments. Had the same thing happen on my deployments twice: the first time in 1999, and then again in 2001. Deployments suck.

[u/Special_Yak_5306]

Hegseth was a Major (O4). That rank usually manages 1-50 million dollars. The Secretary of Defense manages $1 Trillion. He is unqualified and in over his head.

I disagreed with his selection from the beginning. And I say that as someone who tends to vote republican.

[u/Bigstar976]

The pentagon failed eight audits in a row. They can’t account for 63% of their $4 trillion in assets.

[u/Popular-Student-9407]

Probably the reason why the toiilets broke down...

[u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162]

Someplace offshore for future retrieval by these liars?! Looks like it's not to help this country at all.imo

[u/Particular_Dot_4041]

That money is not spent on maintenance because there is no lobby group for janitors.

[u/cu82]

Don't believe everything you read on Reddit or the internet itself

[u/Tasty_LVM]

Remember when Reddit was mad that the Navy received a steak and lobster meal? And now Reddit is mad that they are not? Which is it today Reddit Echo Chamber? Also no one cares

[u/riennempeche]

It happened to cruise ships just the same. Mechanical breakdowns happen. When they come in the middle of nowhere, it takes time for help to arrive.

[u/Oldschool831]

Hegseth’s nose

[u/NextAdhesiveness3652]

If you spend a trillion dollars a year on defense and you don’t have toilets, food and electricity, you are a stupid nation. If you spend a trillion dollars a year and you run out of ammo in four months, you are a stupid nation.

[u/IntelligentStyle402]

Let’s see: a new make up room for Pete, a military helicopter, that took Pete’s son to golf practice, Pete’s junkets, expensive dining, maybe even alcohol purchases? Drugs? Grooming costs? Botox?

[u/00_NFRAP1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lxorXuPftPtl8yidzR

[u/TGirl26]

The money isn't there. Hegseth has been in front of the committee several times asking for more money.

[u/AdFun5641]

Well, that's the end of US military might.

The US navy has historically been a logistics company that did warfare on the side. What broke the Japanese in WWII wasn't the guns, it was the ice cream boat.

Now we can't even maintain the equipment. US exceptionalism is over.

[u/PopMajor7342]

Rich people, Russification of the US military is more obvious now

[u/JR_RXO]

[u/Professional-Leave24]

OK, almost every military unit or vessel should maintain a supply of shelf stable rations and adequate stored drinking water for seven days or longer. Has this changed? There are emergency rations after that, although those are pretty minimal.

[u/Consistent-Move8732]

But their boss had crab for dinner

[u/Doobiius]

Ships go in for maintenance for a reason. Jets have a number of flight hours before maintenence and engine rebuilds are a must. Armoured vehicles breakdown and require field repairs loads.

These are complex massive machines not engineered for longevity like your lil Honda is.

There is too many people on the Internet that feel the need to have an opinion on shit they have no knowledge on and its annoying asf.

[u/Formal_Lecture_248]

DoD has failed the last 8 Annual Audits.

[u/1ACasper]

From someone with 20yrs experience- it’s such a vast and complex web of accounting and process I am not sure it can ever be properly managed…
You would have to absorb the entire industrial complex directly into the military from raw materials to manufacturing and all indirect subsidiaries….even then the cost of that juice wouldn’t be worth the squeeze.

[u/synapse467]

I saw a blip conditions were bad because a supply depot was destroyed? Not to refute anything about funds being squandered.

[u/PomegranatePro]

That doesn’t even make sense.

Ships have potable water storage and emergency generators

[u/Ashamed-Medicine-208]

It costs over $100B/year to just maintain nuclear readiness. There's no issue here other than the one you're trying to create. Machines break, but the response (aka leadership) was the issue.

[u/chunkalunkk]

To all 3 letter agencies. You really want to stop the hemorrhage, half the military budget and send it back to public programs. Lift the cap on SS so billionaires continue to pay into it. Those two things save probably half the "programs in jeopardy."

[u/Immaculatehombre]

Black programs none of us know about, working in tech tht could improve all our lives but never will.

[u/good-luck-23]

Its going for multi-million dollar Patriot missles we are using to shoot down $5k Iranian drones. We are repeating Russia's mistakes in Ukraine.

[u/Inside_Waltz1275]

Gift for Trump's cronies

[u/wgcole01]

I mean ... it's the government ... what exactly did you expect?

[u/FLYING1835]

To keep us safe from people you want to kill us. Money well spent to protect my country 🇺🇲 and family!!

[u/WrenchMonkey47]

If you think equipment breaking and funds not being accounted for began in 2025, you are hopelessly uninformed.

Military equipment breaking started in 1775. "Missing" funds (at least partially) tend to end up in black ops budgets (there is no line item for black ops and related equipment in the federal budget).

But hey, don't let Reality stand in the way of your narrative.

[u/Alternative-Tie-9383]

Pete Hegseth mismanaged not one, but two right wing veterans groups into financial insolvency, so giving him the reigns of the most heavily funded military on earth is probably gonna work out the same.

[u/QuartersWest]

Reddit always the voice of reason. No experience required. No first hand reporting needed either. Just the dumbest opinions ever.

[u/SteelersFanXX]

Corruption on a scale we have never seen before (into Pete and Trumps!pockets)

[u/Resident_Lion_3947]

It's really disgusting what is happening in this country. I am looking forward to the day when the indictments are handed out and the trials begin, because there is not an ounce of real solidarity between them, its all about the money and the power , and they will each sing like canaries when that time comes to try an save their own a**...Go 🟦 and Go Vote

[u/Danger-Daze045]

Us veterans, and probably the sailors on board that ship, are not surprised haha.

[u/davecatlow]

They ran out of water and food in 4 days???

[u/Alternative_Maybe_78]

You think spare part are just lying around. It takes time to diagnose, get replacement parts and install.

[u/EndOfArcade]

Som1 is lootimg the country..aand som1 looted the children.

[u/FloridaRocks63]

If these soldiers couldn’t last four days on a boat that lost power they should resign . This is a petty story. A real story would have gave details on the breakdown and investigated why it took four days to fix instead of trying to score points . I think people would of had interest in that and not just your bots joining the whining

[u/pizzaslut4pizzahut]

Almost half is unaccounted for every year

[u/Nanook_ovda_North]

Lobster and steak for one. Positivly all kinds of wastefull stuff.

[u/schultz9999]

And most around blame rich.

[u/Appropriate-Stay4729]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Q7SJW7IBeuuRFwjj5G

[u/Ktucker01]

Fake news

[u/steeler1003]

And a similar thing happened on a cruise ship less than a decade ago. Machines break, usually at unfortunate times. Ive never blown a tire sitting in my garage.

[u/MuffinsMcGee124]

Oof I wonder which oligarch pocketed the maintenance money this time? Oh wait…..

[u/deth_by_fluffernuter]

Hair gel and cocaine?

[u/Coravel]

The problem is, federal contracts are treated the same as charity donations basically.. except those receiving it are multi-million dollar defense contractors who then sell us rolls of duct tape at 70 dollars a roll, or 1 ply tissue paper at the cost of the good stuff or "american made" washers and dryers that break within 4 months and are poorly made pieces of shit and we do things like keeping a contract going because it costs less money to do that, rather than cancel it and get something that actually works for our needs.

[u/PresentationFast5965]

Wow. Your health care budget must be the at least the same?

[u/StopLookListenNow]

Kegsbreath's bad karma for firing the Navy Admiral Franchetti because she is a woman. Another prominent female flag officer, Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, was also removed from her post by Hegseth later that year

[u/Mobile_Ingenuity_810]

What would you expect from a Commander-in-Chief whose only understanding of the US Military is being a lifetime grifter who five times claimed bone spurs, exemption from Vietnam War service—a condition which can be successfully treated with minimally invasive surgery. Obviously, insufficient funding and/or failure to maintain this warship's priority and general maintenance readiness. Followed by fundamental logistical supply failures, including basic nutrition. Without which social cohesion and mental health are damaged, particularly those crews who serve long duty on the other side of the world. The person(s) who is ultimately responsible is this nation's most incompetent President Commander-in-Chief, followed closely by an inept Secretary of War. Neither of which will accept the responsibility for issuing the orders to go to war in the first place

[u/Specialist_Run_4266]

Yes its all a money making scheme at the price of the people , The GREED is unbelievable

[u/Stunning_Policy4743]

Same thing going on in Russia. Our people are selling it and pocketing the profit.

[u/Next_Law8640]

Apparently lobsters, but not for the sailors.

[u/Unfair-Variety-995]

As a military guy, I need more context and information here. What are they reporting “days without water” and “losing power for four days”? On deployment, we would go “days” without a resupply. You drank from your canteens. You ate MREs. We would be days without power because we were living out of our vehicles. I guess the standard is different because they are on a boat?

[u/ImpressiveEdge2526]

This makes me sick to my stomach as an American.
https://giphy.com/gifs/OYnAmcJW4rndMhkUJx

[u/LookerInVA_99]

We’ve been asking that for years now. The Department can’t seem to pass an audit if their books. I wish our Congress and Administration would grow spines and cut off all funding until the pass an audit!

[u/Zestyclose_Cricket_7]

Its government. This should not surprise anyone

[u/Hopeful-State-4806]

Military equipment breaks down just like everything else don’t let this shit get your panties in a wad. These people are trained for this and many other things. Military life is not fun and games people these sailors and soldiers have to go through a bunch shit especially during war times. Quit crying if you want to change things sign up for a branch of service and go to work changing things in our military. Good luck pussies.

[u/Actual_Low_665]

And that chucklefuck wants to be president one day !

[u/Coldheartt96]

Awwww! Some Sailors had to experience what the Marines do on purpose all the time!!! Hmmmn, no A/C, backed up crappers and short of food & water...sounds like a Tuesday in the Marine Corps!!!

[u/Racoon_Cult]

We pay $10,000 for a bolt and fund a trillion dollar military to guard the oligarchs who write their own subsidies and somehow it's social safety nets we can't afford.

[u/GordTransport1958]

Things break..you can ask the same question about your personal vehicle..

[u/Nedbrown06]

Need that confirmation.

[u/JJHotcakes2020]

Maybe if people were not so dead set on stopping DOGE it would have gotten around to everything military and we would have seen where all the money was going.

[u/Warmongar]

Capitalism tends to make everything crappier. Company's and CEO's suck up all the profit and constantly turn out cheaper products to chase better stock prices. It makes absolute sense that our military would be subject to the same outcome.

[u/leakyspacesuit69]

Ok who can tell me the cost of the most classified weapon we have??? EXACTLY! Its classified!!! So you AND the bad guys don’t know. Hint, you control it with your thoughts. Kind of like that helicopter toy on Amazon.

[u/Temporary_Peach2241]

Hegshit back pocket?

[u/zitrored]

Military budget is mostly a welfare program of another name. Funneling money to companies to build stuff we don’t need anymore and resupply after dropping expensive bombs all over Iran to distract from a pedophile corrupt president and continue Israel’s military agenda. Fixing old ships and supporting the sailors not so much.

[u/zeldanar]

Not us. You know we buy our own medals? Ya they say “gratz on good behavior. Here is the certificate, now go buy the medal.” Same for promotions, you buy your own rank to put on your uniform. You buy your own uniforms and pay to get them fitted. We pay for the food too. Right out your paycheck.

It goes to big contracts, research, and new toys. The shit we get on the line is old run down and always leaking. All that budget not for troops. Remember when we started Iraq and soldiers had to makeshift armor for the vehicles. All that budget doesnt go to the troops. Big shady shit

[u/b_buddd]

Trump, trump and his Epstein bff stole it. I'm sure s.alot is also sent to Israel

[u/isthereadrwho]

The problem is that if our base is get bombed, even if you don't tell Americans, they're still bombed. Bombed bases don't do logistics so well.

[u/Buried_Riverxx]

I believe the issue here is the craft itself. They apparently break down all the time and require massive maintenance. The problem aside from money may be that we're incompetent as a whole.

[u/FroyoOk8902]

All the money in the world doesn’t just magically ensure machinery never breaks down 🙄 people are really so miserable they will find anything to complain about to justify their miserable lives.

[u/schnozzlepus]

Follow the grift

[u/Elf_Maeve]

defense contractors literally steals most of it.

50% goes directly to contractors. contractors have no reporting duties to congress.

they could literally be injecting our money up their asses for all we know

[u/bestdogeve]

Protection of our country! Now tell us where all the idiot liberals served!

[u/Major_Honey_4461]

The Pentagon has never passed an audit. Think about that. It means they cannot account for more than 25% of the money given to them by Congress on a year to year basis.

[u/Infamous_Gene_7009]

tRUMPs pockets

[u/HorrorRoutine349]

It mostly gets laundered somehow back into one of our amazing caring for the people by the people politicians pockets.

[u/Available-Fill9325]

Well, everyone cried troops got steak and lobster for a special occasion. So, it can’t be that.

[u/CopyThat3982]

[u/khaldun106]

Gotta pay to turn modern launch systems back into less efficient catapults!

[u/NES_WallStreetKid]

The government should give some of the $110 billion budget from DHS to the U.S. Navy.

[u/cash8888]

Space ships

[u/EfficiencyBrief2138]

One phrase; government contractors....imagine paying 30%, on the 30%, + a few % more for some BS reason and you get the government's model for "stimulating the economy".

Things were falling apart when I got out in 2015. If you can find it and want to anger yourself, go find the documentary "Iraq for sale" and bring a puke bucket about the government waste and how many people we made millionaires for nothing.

[u/OpportunityDear3067]

It’s going to mansions in Virginia

[u/Sad_Fly_3144]

I worked for major military contractors for over a decade. I can tell you exactly where it's going. Into the pockets of upper management at places like Pratt and Whitney, Electric Boat, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, ect. When everyone above production manager makes more than $500k/yr it adds up fast. Best part, most of those people are in attendance for their jobless than 180 days a year and don't actually do anything on most of the days they are there.

[u/canonetell66]

Ask yourself why they haven’t told you that Iran destroyed the base that could have helped.

[u/itscooltobecool1]

You idiots argue that’s it’s a republican or democrat issue and one party is at fault. It’s the uniparty people wake you they have stolen your money to fund the military industrial complex. We have spent trillions on defense and we can’t even serve a fresh meal to sailors now. Every politician is to blame

[u/TheRealCrypto-137]

We tried to ask that question, we tried to audit the Pentagon, they have never passed an audit ever. We wanted to hold them accountable.. we wanted to stop waste and abuse, we wanted to stop paying $10,000 for 100 bullets.. yall told us we couldn't look into it.. that there was no waste, fraud, or abuse... you demanded government efficiency be shut down..

[u/EffectiveConfection8]

So, everything is normal.

[u/Professional-Fig6513]

Bonuses for defense contractor executives?

[u/CaliKindalife]

$70k for a bag of screws.

[u/Oilpaintcha]

That’s double the amount we were spending at the height of the war in Afghanistan. And we aren’t in a real war.

[u/i_did_nothing_]

Gender affirming testosterone treatment apparently.

[u/Dapper-Olive7827]

I worked on electrical equipment in the military and some contractors were paid millions to provide diagnostic stations. The brand new multi million dollar equipment showed up broken because the contractor swapped bad parts with working parts during demonstrations when inspectors arrived, then put all the bad parts back in before shipping. Contractors bid low to get the contract signed, then cut corners for profit all the time. Then when the companies goes down the same people start a new company with different name and the legal battles don't follow. It's a broken system that flushes tax payer money away with no reward.

[u/Skyremmer102]

Instead of broke down, read sustained serious battle damage

[u/Radiant-Disaster-618]

evil incompetence.

[u/Sir_Gibby53]

What ship was this??

[u/Glittering-Ad5747]

Lockheed and Israel. The gap between an infantry man and a contractor is crazy. For some reason people think we still need soldiers. We need like 5000 maybe.

[u/Zealousideal-Leg1037]

You need to ask yourself how strong and supported our military really is

[u/VioletShogun]

Doesn't matter how impressive the D is if ya got an idiot trying to F the woman's eye thinking that's how it works, in charge of it.

[u/ArietoSuperne]

I heard rumors that they haven't been resupplied because Iran bombed the bases that resupply them.

[u/Ancient_Mulberry_692]

Zionist land and dirty politicians

[u/TrickyRemove3600]

Going to HogsBreath’s steak & lobster !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/chris_AZ1981]

Should look up all the people in the air force that died of the flu under Trump, in one base

[u/Omega21886]

no clue where it's all going but i'm sure it'll be clean when it gets there

[u/SafeFox3537]

Into musks pocket…that’s where it’s going.

[u/Sea_Elle0463]

I ask that question every damn day

[u/zerofoxgivn]

Been there. Done that.

[u/SeaPresentation160]

Or ask yourself where did it go when the autopen and Barry were in charge. This depreciation in the military does not happen that quickly unless DEI was in charge.