Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Bookkeeping Is Not The Specialty Of The US Military

New Pay, Personnel System Dumped As A 'Disaster' -- Montgomery Advertiser

After spending $1 billion and 12 years of effort, Defense officials have pulled the plug on a hapless plan to bring the four military branches under a single, mod­ern payroll and personnel re­cords system.

"This program has been a disaster," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month. He said he applauded the deci­sion to kill what proponents said would be the largest, fully-integrated human resource sys­tem in the world.

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My Comment: I knew that the Pentagon accountants were hopeless when it came to calculating budgets for large programs .... but it now appears that they are also hapless when it comes to their own pay.

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