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Reasonable is a matter of degrees also: - Should hardware like battleships and subs (de-"milled") be offered for sale to the public? - Noting that there are now Billionaire individuals with that kind of buying power. - Might take some heat off the taxpayer if we could recoup some of those...

And all along I was thinking MRAP was maybe just some new kind of tunes: - Gotz 2 Git Wid It Brah

Me neither, my comment was not a political statement either. Just a common vanilla everyday plain-and-simple run-of-the-mill rant. That's all::rant:

My guess is that all of THAT noise is coming from out of either the Army or the Air Force. I'm thinking that we disband and dissolve BOTH of them, and go it with the USN and the USMC alone. Probably do a better job, and at half the cost to boot. I mean let's just talk flying skill, as one...

It is anathema for this to come from the mouth of a Seabee*; but speaking as a taxpayer I always liked the U.S. Marine Corps: - as a Federal entity they get more done with less than probably any other single agency of the entire U.S. Government They always have, and likely they always will...

I imagine the seller did nothing to discourage that over-buying. During the Civil War, here in the U.S. between 1861 and 1865, being mostly from Maryland (a border state), we had family on both sides of the fight. In a nutshell, Southern family pretty much lost everything. They all had to...

Logisitics can clearly be lucrative (for those who know how to play the game). Since we're all paying the bills here we might as well get in on the action: anyone know how to set up a syndicate to tap the cash-flow here?! Steel Soldiers, Ltd? Net can go to the Kitty!

That's a lot of fat contracts for the middle-man; Uncle Sam likes to spread the love. Some people are making a lot of good money off all this. And it looks like the taxpayers (you and me) take ANOTHER sucker punch.