When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go?
A retired Air Force auditor — we’ll call him Andy — tells a story about a thing that happened at Ogden Air Force Base, Utah. Sometime in early 2001, something went wrong with a base inventory order. Andy thinks it was a simple data-entry error. “Someone ordered five of something,” he says, “and it came out as an order for 999,000.” He laughs. “It was probably just something the machine defaulted to. Type in an order for a part the wrong way, and it comes out all frickin’ nines in every field.” Nobody actually delivered a monster load of parts. But the faulty transaction — the paper trail for a phantom inventory adjustment never made — started moving through the Air Force’s maze of internal accounting systems anyway. A junior-level logistics officer caught it before it went out of house. Andy remembers the incident because, as a souvenir, he kept the June 28th, 2001, email that circulated about it in the Air Force accounting world, in which the dollar value of the error was discussed.
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So are its computer systems, a hackers dreamland.
Flooding of Nebraska Air Force Base illustrates security risk posed by climate change
The flooding at Offutt base has prompted further criticisms of Trump's denialism.
America is a disaster in general. Obese cows on a high horse
News flash, for the last few thousands years it floods in the spring along major rivers when certain conditions hold true. All around the world in fact where the ground is saturated with snow, spring temps are warmer than winter temps. This effect will melt snow, melting snow is also know as water. Water always follows a negative slope which is typically what a river course is. So when there is major snow accumulation along the Missouri river, as happened this past winter, guess what?
Flooding!
Talk about morons Anon.
Climate Change Threatens National Security Says Pentagon
Pentagon Warns of Dire Risk to Bases, Troops From Climate Change
This video highlights the Pentagon's focus on climate change as the military examines potential risks, strategic responses, and impacts of climate change on future military and humanitarian missions. In 2010, for the first time, the Pentagon focused on climate change as a significant factor in its Quadrennial Defense Review of potential risks and strategic responses. Rear Admiral David Titley, Oceanographer of the Navy, explains why the US military sees clear evidence of climate change and how those changes will affect future military and humanitarian missions.
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Cities along the river are often built on bottomlands. Bottomland flood. It is why they are called bottom land. Souix City is all bottomland until you get to the bluffs.
I live on a river and I am not worried about flooding. We have a large overflow area. It is a called a marsh. It will flood and it will semi-dry-out. I am not at all worried about a flood. If I lived at between the foot of the bluffs and the rivers edge on along the Missouri I would worry. They do not have sufficient marsh. It has been tiled, drained and put into production to feed the anti-oil hysteria if the stupid people.
Adding 80,000 Mexicans and central Americas every 3 months to the population is not helping urban sprawl. We get more population, we get more sprawl we get more inundated cities and then we get befuddled, irate liberals.
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