Great, another US war

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

I didn't and don't express an opinion about who is right or wrong....anyone using "religion" to justify aggression/killing/murder/war is beyond hope anyway.

Add in the tribal-ism that still plagues that part of the world and you have a REAL shit hole.

Religion is rarely the reason, but rather the excuse. The reasons are invariably political and financial.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by tallywacker

I wouldn't be as mad if I didn't know first hand how much money is wasted during "wartime" and just disappears. Contractors getting paid to do nothing or shitty work, then pay the same to do it over again. .

Or causing people to die of electrocution in the shower, as happened to at least 12 soldiers in Iraq, due to shoddy construction work by KBR and equally shoddy oversight by military officers

[Archren]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Or causing people to die of electrocution in the shower, as happened to at least 12 soldiers in Iraq, due to shoddy construction work by KBR and equally shoddy oversight by military officers

Which then causes more money to be spent when TF Safe has to go in and tell KBR to fix all the shoddy electrical work.

[pauldun170]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42311273/ns/politics/

The United States will continue to handle tasks such as intelligence gathering and search-and-rescue operations for downed pilots.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Archren

Having worked in Engineering and Contracting ops downrange this last deployment... this assessment is spot on. We had a requirement of giving local contractors the option of doing construction for us.. yeah, it was cheaper than KBR or even RED HORSE, but their work was fucking crap. RED HORSE could put down a concrete pad in a few hours and make it look like a fucking work of art. LN contractor puts a similar concrete pad down and makes it look like he took a shit instead - pad was cracked before it was even fully cured. And then the assholes who we had to deal with for bringing in gravel... that was highway robbery right there. But that's an entirely different rant.

And bird Colonels should have to ride the fucking bus back to their CHUs just like the rest of us. DILLIGAF that you are a brigade commander? You already get your own shower and shitter while the rest of us have to walk a block for the same thing every morning. Leave the vehicles where the people who actually do some work can use them.

My last trip we were trying to get someone at home to mail us a fuckton of blue food coloring that we were gonna dump into some random officer's shower water supply. Never happened though.

[Archren]

Originally Posted by Dave

My last trip we were trying to get someone at home to mail us a fuckton of blue food coloring that we were gonna dump into some random officer's shower water supply. Never happened though.

THAT would have been an epic win. Fuck it, I'd say mail food coloring to a buddy in Iraq.. the rate we're deploying, I'm sure someone can pull it off sooner or later. Hell, I have a buddy in Iraq right now that might just do it...

[AquaPython]

not food coloring, toilet water coloring, aka 2000 flushes. you just put one tablet in the shower head

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by AquaPython

not food coloring, toilet water coloring, aka 2000 flushes. you just put one tablet in the shower head

I see that you've done this before

[Dave]

Originally Posted by AquaPython

not food coloring, toilet water coloring, aka 2000 flushes. you just put one tablet in the shower head

That requires me gaining access to their hooch. Not outside my skillset but far more difficult than popping open their supply tank. Harder to get away with too

[Archren]

Originally Posted by Dave

That requires me gaining access to their hooch. Not outside my skillset but far more difficult than popping open their supply tank. Harder to get away with too

I was on the health & welfare inspection team. I could have gotten access... just would have needed the 1SG to cover my alibi.