re: New “scandal” just dropped: military budget included lobster for deployed troops, Ds upset

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This is truly laughable.

Showed a couple others, they laughed as well.

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Did either of them serve? The military has its bureaucracy just like any other government agency.

Don't confuse effective with efficient.

I thought this was common around the end of the fiscal year due to the "use it or lose it" aspect of federal budgets?

The issue here is the "use it or lose it" mentality at the end of a fiscal year. If a department doesn't spend allocated funds, they go back into the general fund. This isn't the first time, and both parties do it. Departments would rather spend a lot of money on shite they don't need, rather than see the money go back.

When I was stationed at the Seabee base in Port Hueneme California we had choice of steak or lobster every Friday.Most Navy bases had pretty good food but that one was the best I ever ate at.

Later on I came to believe that most bases got steaks but the senior enlisted in charge of the chow halls stole them.When I was in Iceland I was at the public works department,the 1st class petty officer in charge of the parts dept traded a set of Navy tires to a senior enlisted from the chow hall for two cases of steaks.Meanwhile we had 10 Navy pickups on blocks for lack of tires.
We were never served steaks at that chow hall.