I just think the funds would be better spent ELSEWHERE within the military. The service misappropriates things all the time. The United States Air Force, is awesome at this. I spent 7 years in it so i hae a little bit of a clue, but to this end i admit i have a biased poitn of view.
Theres two USAF's. Yes two. You have the Flying Air force, and the non flying air force. What the flying AF wants, the flying AF gets. Everyone else gets the short bus. Pilots are generally pedigreed and pampered. Nothing quite a disgrunteling as being on a deployment, and seeing the flyboys in an airconditioned temper tent while everyone else is billited in GP medium tents that have probably been in the inventory longer then most anyone who's sleeping in the have been alive on this planet.
On the bigger picture, each branch is allocated a certain alotment of money. If they do not speed that entirely allotment, they get a smaller alotment the next fiscal year. That means when the end of the fiscal year comes near, they go on a spending spree. This big picture, works the exact same way all the way down to the smallest duty section. So you'll have guys walking around with their own private collection of undocumented leathermans or gerbers (i was an engineer), courtesy of our friend the taxpayer.
Despite all that, you never really have the stuff you really NEED, because they've spent all their money elsewhere so they can keep their money allotment status quo. The AF spends its money on primarly two things that im aware of. Base beautification, and planes. More pratical things like tools you need in order to do your job, is an after thought. So you have steath fighters designed for a cold war era conflict, and 300 feet of fencing which cost the taxpayers 350,000 dollars.
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