Charging it to the game

2014-02-19T20:08:06-05:00

If you don't know what this means, here is an example. My unit is getting ready to deploy and we had no holsters at all. I networked and located some. After doing a bit of a drug deal, I had the holsters. The cost: lunch. Just charging it to the game. What are some times where you have had to do something similar to this?

Response by SFC James Baber made Feb 19 at 2014 9:19 PM

2014-02-19T21:19:17-05:00

SSG F., This is old school, it is just not as easy anymore as many units are more stringent on making those types of backdoor deals with the stronger accountability issues. My best one was during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, when we deployed, our HUMMVs were stuck at port because of customs and a paper screw up, the unit in charge told us it would be 7 days before they could be cleared for us to take control of, we were scheduled to roll out to head north the next day, I got a hold of the Supply Master for our HQs element up near the Iraqi border (800th MP BDE) and after some wheeling and dealing with bayonets (we had hundreds of them that we were never going to use), I convinced him to have his liaison at the port the sign us out 30 HUMMVs, the guy at the distribution point showed where they were at and said get your drivers here in the next 30 minutes and we could roll out, he didn't pay to close attention to what he was giving us, our LT signed to 1156 which was only supposed to be for 30 days until our were released from holding, the vehicles we got had no bumper numbers or data plates, so we drove off, and got to our compound, myself and the PLT SGT painted our unit bumper numbers on them and headed out the next morning, a few weeks later our own HUMMVs were released and came up to us, a few months passed and the BDE never came looking for their vehicles, we just figured when we got ready to head home they would be turned back in. We actually stayed a few extra months because we were doing customs duties, instead of leaving in June with everyone else that came on our shipment we stayed until September, and when we went to port to turn our vehicles in for transport, the load master went and counted our vehicles and came and gave the LT a paper count with 49 vehicles the 29 we shipped with and the 30 we had gotten in country, we asked if that was correct and he asked did we have more and we said no, they put all 49 on the ship under our UIC and shipped them, the 800th main element had left in July, so we figure the paperwork was either lost or tossed along the way, so we get back home with twice as many vehicles as we left with, the CDR had no clue what to do, he contacted the BMO, who contacted the BC and the BDE CDR, they both said until someone comes looking for them don't worry about it and they were added to our PB. I was in the unit for 3 more years and nothing ever changed or came from it, so to the best of my knowledge those vehicles stayed with the unit forever until either changed out for newer models for OIF or are still in the motor pool to this day. That is how and what types of things that happened back in the day, I have many friends that I worked with in the 80s who came in during the tail end of Vietnam who have told me plenty of bigger deals and weirder exchanges than that, but that was the norm back then.

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