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Originally Posted by Rochard
I'm sorry, how was this a waste?
Was our entire Army walking around naked this entire time? Of course not. It was wearing the uniform. Lots of 'em.
This article makes it sound like they spent $5 billion on a handful of uniforms that failed. That's not true. This money was spent on uniforms over a ten year period, 2003-2013. If you start playing around with numbers... Let's just say the US Army (alone) has one million people, and each one of them has seven camo uniforms per person. That's seven million uniforms per year for just the army. Multiple that times ten years and that's seventy million uniforms over a ten year period - just for the US Army.
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The ARMY's 5 Billion waste.. Guess it was JUST the Army.
When I was in 1989-90's we were only GIVEN 4 uniforms in Basic 2 Warm weather and 2 cold weather. We were then given a Yearly Clothing allowance to Purchase whatever we needed from the Base Store. The Clothing Allowance barely covered one set a year, those things were expensive.....
So it would only be the NEW soldiers for the time listed, also maybe if when implemented they gave all active soldiers a set.
I would Love to invent something that didn't work besides being clothing and sell to the gov for 10 years... HAHA 70 million into 5 billion is what $70 for shirt and pants?? (math could be way off, just a guess)