Who will admit to "losing" a couple million in military equipment?

I'm sure many will say they tossed millions to run their equipment into the ground for lack of parts, lube, downtime, etc. It's the nature of the beast. Even with maintenance, we basically flew the wings off the 141s and C-5s. Those air frames had to be written off sooner due to the OPTEMPO. On the construction side, lots of stuff built in SW Asia that wasn't ever needed.

The construction office I ran on Adak put about $80M worth of housing in that was written off a few years later due to BRAC. It was then given to the Aleut Corporation who then charged high prices for Feds to live in while they got their Environmental work done. Another BRAC brain fart not thinking about the long game.

Cpl Fresch, Well, Sir, I have no idea.. I appreciate your responsibility to inventory, and to be accountable for Equip. Especially costing that amount of money.. All I can say sir, is that when leaving Nam, with Vietnamese refugees, and watching our Marines and Navy physically push Helicopters overboard to rot and rust at the bottom of the So. China Sea was appalling.. But it was done.. Therefore allowing more refugees to be brought on board and taken to safety.. Definitely, I do not understand.. but if our pilots are safe ... so be it.. and I DO Appreciate your Concern...

Cpl Dennis F. Four years ago I chatted w/ a USMC Finance COL at Camp Pendleton. He spoke of signing for a pallet load of $100 bills (Like $3,000,000), being offloaded from a C-130 in Afghanistan. He said, "Until I disbursed that money; where the pallet went, I went. If an IED exploded near that pallet, I wanted to be there. That would be easier than trying to explain what happened to the $!"