Utilization of Military Kit

The quantities are huge. They could only expend a small portion in training, unless they just fired it off mindlessly.

Hm, used to get stuff at a DRMO [Defense and Reutilization Marketing Office] at mrAru’s base. Bought a Sperry 1616 SNAP II ballistics computer off a submarine for a prank that we ever got around to doing, several triwalls of uniform stuff, tools, furniture and such over the past 27 years. We actually drove down to North Carolina to look at an ocean going tug once, it ended up selling fairly cheaply for the condition [something like $300 000, not much more than the actual powerplant was worth. Hell of a deal.] Have looked at but not purchased various vehicles, did buy a confiscated pickup truck [classed as abandoned, some guy deployed and left it in base parking for 5 months then changed duty station and never came back to get it out of the towed vehicle parking lot. Had the little Chevy s10 for almost 10 years, best 700 bucks we ever spent on a vehicle.]