When I was in the service, we had to inventory tools. We were short one and had to buy it for $150. It was a piece of white metal and no one had a clue what it was for. LOL!
Sorry, but that never happened. The Army isn’t THAT dumb. (I use to work for Army Commands that bought the equipment and spare parts.)~It’s NASA that pays too much for toilet seats.
If I may put in a word for the aerospace industry, one group determined that all this expensive hardware could be undercut. They developed a rocket made of commercial parts. Inexpensive. Got the contract. Launched. Rocket never heard from again.
To be fair, many of those $400 hammers, $65,000 toilet seats, and the like are just ways to ‘hide’ costs for black ops and other top-secret operations. The Pentagon is pretty free with the money, true, but there is civilian oversight.
Plus those toilets and seats are going to be subjected to high altitude, violent manuvers, high g-forces and hopefully not expolsive decompression. But they beat the old honey pots, that were original on the BUFF’s. First guy to use it had to empty them for the rest of the mission. (BUFF’s are B-52’s which are crewed by airmen younger by a decade then the aircraft they fly)
somebodyshort over 7 years ago
So that’s who underbid my $85,000
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 7 years ago
When I was in the service, we had to inventory tools. We were short one and had to buy it for $150. It was a piece of white metal and no one had a clue what it was for. LOL!
Linguist over 7 years ago
That why the Pentagon spent $8,000,000,000.00 on a Kushmaker !
mourdac Premium Member over 7 years ago
I thought wheedling tax breaks for your business and getting the government to pay for infrastructure which benefits only you was the American way
Charlie Fogwhistle over 7 years ago
I thought it was NASA that had the expensive toilets. Hmm. One more buyer to work with. Now they’re competing.
Andrew Sleeth over 7 years ago
Corporate welfare for the Military-Industrial Complex. Free-market capitalism, my ass!
JD'Huntsville'AL over 7 years ago
Sorry, but that never happened. The Army isn’t THAT dumb. (I use to work for Army Commands that bought the equipment and spare parts.)~It’s NASA that pays too much for toilet seats.
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member over 7 years ago
Sounds like a bunch of crap!
PappyFiddle over 7 years ago
If I may put in a word for the aerospace industry, one group determined that all this expensive hardware could be undercut. They developed a rocket made of commercial parts. Inexpensive. Got the contract. Launched. Rocket never heard from again.
Squirrelchaser over 7 years ago
To be fair, many of those $400 hammers, $65,000 toilet seats, and the like are just ways to ‘hide’ costs for black ops and other top-secret operations. The Pentagon is pretty free with the money, true, but there is civilian oversight.
mauser7 over 7 years ago
Plus those toilets and seats are going to be subjected to high altitude, violent manuvers, high g-forces and hopefully not expolsive decompression. But they beat the old honey pots, that were original on the BUFF’s. First guy to use it had to empty them for the rest of the mission. (BUFF’s are B-52’s which are crewed by airmen younger by a decade then the aircraft they fly)