[R-390] radios at trash sites

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I remember when they found a tank in a lake in Korea. A perfectly good tank.
It was excess and not on the books, and had to be dumped before the
Inspector General team arrived to inspect and inventory the unit. I was in a
few motor pools my first few years and we always had excess equipment that
we had to hide during IG inspections. Normally, we would dispatch a truck
with the worst of it to be gone all day. We got caught a few times.


Barry



> Barry asked:
>> Yeah but .... the question was/is -- why was a piece of then-current,
>> serviceable equipment placed in the dump?
>> Is it possible  you unknowingly glommed a piece of gear someone else was in
>> the process of purloining?
> 
> While this certainly is a possible explanation, it's also possible
> that due to beauracratic SNAFU the radio was outside the military
> property system.  I hate to say it, but often it's easier to just
> junk these outsiders rather than put them into the system!
> 
> I know little about how the MARS radios were accounted for,
> for example.
> 
> There are certainly (bringing it back to Johnny Cash) stories of
> "I built it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime"
> creations in the military. Sometimes these get almost-found-out
> and the quick way to dispose of the evidence is to toss it. I thought
> the traditional way to do this was to mail all the
> pieces home to your folks' and assemble the Jeep there :-).
> 
> Tim.