$50M Chump Change for the DoD? (Congress, Iraq, ethics, Afghanistan)
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Isn't it about time we end the automatic, annual call for MORE! MORE! MORE! $$$ for the military and audit the only major government agency to have never been audited?
Isn't it about time we end the automatic, annual call for MORE! MORE! MORE! $$$ for the military and audit the only major government agency to have never been audited?
I just read most of your link. Honestly, this *really* speaks to the the gouging done by private corporations that are using taxpayer dollars. It's shameful. Various military organizations contract out quite a bit of wartime effort as there are not enough troops or DoD civilians to accomplish these missions. There are too many instances of them abusing it. This particular contract was audited by a government agency and that's how all of these violations were found.
Of course, Congress and the media fire back at the military and civilians in government for not providing enough "oversight" to these companies, but when you keep cutting the oversight type of personnel or combining jobs and departments, it makes it very hard for the DoD employee to follow these thieves around Afghanistan to see what they are really doing.
What is really needed is stiffer ethics and penalties against private companies who work on the taxpayers' dime.
Hard to believe that the military with all its forms and procedures and thousands upon thousands dedicated to paperwork, how the military can not pass an audit.
Whatever. Perhaps not enough are working on it.
This would be a good time to bring troops home from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, ... and start taking inventory, checking what's working, what needs to be thrown away...
Hard to believe that the military with all its forms and procedures and thousands upon thousands dedicated to paperwork, how the military can not pass an audit.
Whatever. Perhaps not enough are working on it.
This would be a good time to bring troops home from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, ... and start taking inventory, checking what's working, what needs to be thrown away...
The US Navy has been under full audit since 2014 with expectations to pass or fail by the end of 2017/2018. Not sure about the rest of the military services.
The US Navy has been under full audit since 2014 with expectations to pass or fail by the end of 2017/2018. Not sure about the rest of the military services.
From what I read, they have all been under a full audit it for some years now and working on areas that are turning up in interim audit reports.
"For example, the Navy’s first audit resulted in 220 deficiencies, 82 percent related to IT systems. To address these challenges, the Navy is downsizing the number of systems and eliminating redundant capabilities.”
However, the process has been slow with the DoD overall.
"DoD already missed an earlier congressional mandate to get its financial statements in order. By the end of 2014, it was supposed to submit audit-ready statements of budgetary resources; "
It looks as if things are picking up steam as, "Under the current schedule, the Marine Corps will be the first military service to put its full financial statement under audit later this year. Its sister services will conduct their first in fiscal 2018, as will U.S. Transportation Command. U.S. Special Operations Command and the Defense Health Agency also “should be ready” in FY 2018, but “are at the highest risk,” according to DoD."
I was at a large commercial truck repair company in Tucson Arizona. Getting suspension work done.
I walk around and viewed about a half dozen +/- military fuel tankers. All looked in excellent condition. I asked manager what they were doing with these military oil tankers.
The shop won contract to paint all of the fuel tanker trucks. The paint on the trucks looked perfect. I asked which have been repainted and which ones not repainted.
The repainted ones looked exactly as the ones going to be repainted. I asked why those good looking fuel trucks were going to be repainted.
The answer:
The base commander has a maintenance budget. If the base commander does not use up the allotted budget - he/she may get less next years budget.
So the shop painted perfectly good looking fuel trucks - even though they did not need to be painted. All were being painted the same previous colors.
So yes, increase the defense budget. Keep this shop in business. Good for all. Ain't it?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
