Periodic reminder the US Congress forces the military to stockpile mounds of equipment they don’t even want.
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “what if we buy this ventilator and don’t use it.”https://t.co/Uf5OTycFxI— no (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 27, 2020
Can confirm. We had all kinds of extraneous equipment in the 82nd that no one wanted or asked for because some gobshite in Congress pork-barrelled it for us. Meanwhile, the equipment that we needed and used for actual missions and training was often in short supply.