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Date Submitted: 09/21/2009 06:54 AM
Acountability of equipment
acountability of equpiment is one of them most important things there is in the military. if
you cant keep track of what you have then you might be missing the part that saves you life
in a life or death situation. say you go out of the wire and dont have your magaizines what
are you going to use to strike against the enemy. Another example would be what if you didn't keep
track of your E-tool and you needed to dig a fighting position, looks like your fighting without
cover. that is why you should always keep track of your equipment and not be like the national
gaurd units that left there equipment in iraq overseas, in Iraq with no one to keep account of it or
watch it for the army units that were replacing them and when the army units got there the equipment
they were expecting to have there nearly half of it was missing. It took a long time for the
goverment to replace the important stuff they were missing because of the national gaurds blunder.
so the whole time they were waiting on this valuable stuff they were not totally combat efective and
could not completly do there gob to the best of there ability.
acountability has been a problem all through out this war. look whats happening now with Iraq. We
have given them almost 2 billion dolars of equipment and have not asked any questions or told them
to keep track of it. well rackatering and stealing have caused nearly half of it to "disapear" well
now were asking them to keep track of it they cant find nearly half of it. thats nearly 1 billion
dollars of merchendise we just handed over to some theif looking to make his money rather then the
defense of there country. and probably delaying our pull out time because the iraq militia cant do
there job fully if they are not fully equiped. there has been multiple stories of accountability not
not being done causing many problems for the military look at the civil...