[Milsurplus] "Your Tax Dollars At Work", continued.

[Ray Fantini]

One of my daughter's boyfriend's works in ground radio maintenance at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, the exact same thing still goes on today. Good to know some things never change.

Ray F/KA3EKH



From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 7:07 PM
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; armyradios at yahoogroups.com; tetrode at googlegroups.com; Wireless-Set-No19 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Milsurplus] "Your Tax Dollars At Work", continued.

A co-worker of mine told me this about his Coast Guard experience of some 20 - 15 years ago. Of course such things only could occur in remote, benighted  sites
in coastal Oregon,  certainly not Alaska, California, Michigan, New York, or any other place:

"My first day on the job, a fellow came and said, 'Come with me; I need a witness.'  This 44 foot rescue boat had a brass clock, a nice one about 6 inches diameter,
they replaced it with a newer clock. The old one was nice, would have been expensive at an antique or curio store. He took a hammer and pounded the clock til
it was smashed. Then he wrote it off in a book. We did what we had to.

"I was in charge of survival. Every year I was given several thousands of dollars to spend, and I had to spend it all. I bought more 'Mustang' survival suits and soon
there wasn't any place to hang more up, so we cut up the older ones and threw them away, unused ones. This was just my little department; this went on in all
the other departments too.

"We had a 'morale boat'. A 16 foot fishing boat the Coast Guard would rent to us  [ Coast Guards ] for $4.00 a day. We got a newer boat. So we took the old boat
and cut it in half, it was fiberglass, and took it to the dump. We couldn't sell it - that's all too much work, too much paper.

"Onboard the 370 foot vessels, the same kinda thing goes on. They get a new Snap-On toolset, the old set goes over the side".

Such were the outrages that took place in the old, ignorant Dark Ages. We know the Federal government is financially a responsible actor, respects every dollar of
the taxes demanded  from us, and that Federal employees are conscientious souls with the public interest foremost. Certainly the times of such waste are over and
such isolated examples can never again occur.
Yes, I want to stir things up. A paper copy of this will go to the head of the Coast Guard, as well as any political figures I reckon might be stirred to action.
A paper copy, so it's harder to just push a button and delete.
-Hue Miller
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