[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work, part nnnnnn

[Nick England]

Why?
Because no one who works for the govt.  will get any credit, time, pay, or
atta-boys for doing anything else. Instead, the tech who fills out a
surplus equipt form will get yelled at for wasting time instead of working
on other stuff that is really needed. The person who has to take them to
the surplus depot should probably be doing something else and is just
hauling scrap metal. The surplus warehouse folks are just piling scrap
metal onto pallets. The person in charge of surplus sales is just trying to
move scrap metal through the warehouse. Nobody in the chain gets any credit
for doing anything to keep the gear from being treated like scrap metal. So
the surplus dealer bidding on that pallet gets scrap metal at scrap metal
prices. That's the only person in the chain who would get rewarded for gear
in decent shape.
Easier to avoid all the hassle and get some flight time by kicking the
stuff out of the helo.
Nick, who is extremely grateful to all the folks that didn't treat my toys
like scrap metal.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:00 PM Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> I was discussing with Todd KA1KAQ some rare receivers and he sent some
> info on his USCG  R-649, a multiband HF receiver.
> I looked up one of the references, “AM Fone” group post, and saw this:
>
>
>
> “Coast Guard service, the 2182 was added as an afterthought though and
> retrofitted. The guy I got mine from was a Heli pilot in the coast guard,
>
> he was tasked with dumping them in the Atlantic ocean which is why you
> would be hard pressed finding them around. The one I have happened
>
> to roll into a corner of the bird and he didn't realize it was there until
> it hitched a ride out of the base in his trunk. I'm 47 now and I have it
> since I
>
> am 14. One of my favorite radios for am listening. If you need any info,
> let me know. “
>
>
>
> WHY would the military discard value in this way? I do not get it; seems
> to contravene logic. I suppose profit-loss is just a foreign concept when
>
> you have a fixed allocation.
>
> -Hue
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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