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"...How on earth do you lose 4 helicopter engines..."

By having several hundred in your inventory, some of which are located in hostile territory, I expect. They're not really all that pilferable, since the aftermarket is real slow on Cobra gunships right now. My guess is they sit in a warehouse in Galveston or suchlike awaiting shipment to Kabul or wherever. Still, the Army definitely could use a good lo-jack system.

Having spent several years in the military, I tell you exactly where the engines went: to the same warehouse where the Army sent it's common sense.

I have seen some of the most asinine breaches of security and lost paperwork in my time serving.

A non-sensitive case in point: at one of the bases that I was stationed at we were enduring an "inspection", (for those of the readers who have served, I need not elaborate) when an official form relating to "missing or damaged" non-combat related material, (yes there is a form just for that, it happens often enough) crossed my CO's desk. The "missing or damaged" item was referred to in the paperwork as an "OFFOG".

The entire engineering division was in an uproar trying to figure out what the H*** an "OFFOG" was and how it had gotten missing or damaged.

Luckily for my CO, he decided to resubmit the paperwork for a clarification.

The resubmitted form was returned. You see, "OFFOG' was a typo. The actual item was "OFF. DOG, one German Shepperd". My CO's pet, who was the OFFICIAL camp mascot.

Regards Dragon

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