My Logistics Story

 At various times in my Air Force career....I was often stuck with ordering or receiving items that the office/vault required.  

One day in the late 1990s....I got called to the front door of the vault.  The supply delivery guy was there.  He had a box for our organization.  So I signed for it and opened it at the desk.

Here was a fair sized box, with around forty-odd reels (all newly packed).  It didn't really make any sense....we had nothing in the vault that ran on reels, and hadn't had such a device in eight to ten years.  

So I went to the supply office and asked stupid questions.

They dug through the records, and that around 1990 (approximately eight years prior)....someone in the office ordered around forty of these reels.  Money was allocated, and the purchase was made, but put on back-order.  

So I looked at the paperwork and asked....how much did they pay?  It was near $100 each (premium reels).....$4k was involved.  

I told the 'kid'....we didn't really need these...was there anyone to give it to?  Nope was the response.

I went back to the office and spent ten minutes talking to my Captain.  His advice....dump them.  So I prepared paperwork....to turn them into supply.  Well....they turned down the reels.....telling me to turn them into DRMO (Defense reutilization).  But I had to get a stock number, and there was none.

So I went back to supply 'help' office and spent thirty minutes with the 'kid' again.....inventing a stock number, and getting a slip to turn these in.

Man-hour wise?  From beginning to end?  There's probably five hours of time wasted on this.  

Observations: 8 Nov 2021

 1.  This Ashley Biden 'stolen-diary' story.

Well....first, people are shocked that Biden has a daughter (via his second wife, Jill).  Normally, Hunter and the dead son are the only kids ever mentioned.  Second, people keeping diaries?  Well....it was a popular thing for maybe a hundred years.....but in the last thirty-odd years?  It's simply not that popular.

As for the 'steal'?  This is suggested to have occurred about ten days prior to the November election.....but there's simply not many facts on this property being stolen.  Some people relate that the diary was left behind by the daughter (the abandoned is often used).  

This entire story has the 'look' and 'feel' of being fake.  There might have been a diary-like book there and filled with 'juicy' gossip....but there is little to suggest that it was real or actually written by Ashley.  The FBI drawn in?  Why?  If it was personal property....it's a local cop situation.  

2.  Latest shortage?  Those coffee cups you get at stop-and-go coffee houses?

No one is saying a nation-wide shortage....just that problems are being noticed now in the past week.  The odds that you might be asked to bring your own cup with you in the future?  It wouldn't shock me if by Christmas.....you buy your coffee and put it into your own container.

3.  Is Bosnia about to erupt into another civil war?

Well....in the past six months....politics in the region has changed, and there's some 'dynamics' at work.  The tax-revenue people and the judges.....appear compromised.  So 2022 might be an interesting year, with a collapse of civilization in the region.