“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Another decade, another multi-billion $ Army helicopter program cancelled
The Army has once again sunk a massive amount of money into a new helicopter program only to cancel it. Does this story sound familiar? It should. They do it every decade or so. Here’s a brief history of US Army attack helicopter programs and their dispositions; AH-1 Cobra – Successfully entered production, though only […]
Resupply by AI. What could go wrong?
Army Futures Command’s newest Cross Functional Team-Contested Logistics head, Rob Watts, talked about resupply by AI and robotic delivery vehicles such as UAVs and roboboat. “We want a tool to tell us, when we get to precision sustainment, that ‘you need to start moving some ammo to island X today because it’s going to take […]
Throwing dollars at quality of life
Both the Army and Navy have been shocked – SHOCKED – that enlisted barracks, to be polite, suck. Water leaks, black mold, rats (freakin’ RATS?) and a host of other problems have surfaced in the last several months, and leadership is determined to throw money at it fix the situation. Or at least get it […]
Another update
Back when the Washington folks were trying to cure Covid by throwing slush funds at it, one of the tactics was the employee retention tax credit. There was comment at the time that many of these programs amounted to unending slush funds. This one certainly has been – what was supposed to cost $ billion […]
Mansplainin’ to the wrong person
It has been largely ignored, but the House has been holding hearings on DHS, presumably with the aim of impeaching DHS chief Mayorkas. Partisanship is, of course, on full display (after all, the Democrats just know the border is in fine shape.) Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., told a mother who lost her daughter to […]
You would think I would run out of material
Not gonna happen. Not under the current system of two supposedly separate parties. But today we’re just gonna look at the current administration…the one that doesn’t care which party holds the White House or Congress. Treasury is being investigated by a Senate committee for asking banks to provide details on certain keyword transactions in the […]
Say it ain’t so, Joe, and Rooshian AWACs
You have to love how often the pols of today have to eat crow for what they said yesterday. We just recently saw where Joe Biden called out the need for border security when he was running for office… apparently since then he has changed his mind. Or forgotten which border. Or forgotten what a […]
TX DoD Civilian theft
MSN Don’t know if this is a record, but has to be close to it. Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, a civilian financial program manager at Fort Sam Houston,has been indicted on charges that she stole 100 million dollars – a huge amount of money in anyone’s book – while working for the Army. Mello allegedly […]
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