This is a particular sore point with me. I figure that if the military is going to send you off to do something then they should provide you with the resources with which to do it and not apply their logic of one size fits all folks, all missions, and all situations. I never could figure out the logic involved in how folks were outfitted for mission requirements when it just made a whole lot more sense to let the team fiqure out what they needed and then provide them with the bucks to get what they needed either in country or prior to deployment. One of my threatened courts martials involved my audacity of allowing folks to buy dry suits on the economy, get them fitted to them personally, and adding them to their personal clothing list so that they could take them with them to their next assignment if they were going to a dive team. They tried to hang me for misappropriation of government funds, however it wasn't our government's funds that I used and I took great pleasure in telling them when they started their Article 32 investigation to go pound sand. Damn I just love bureaucrates
Jack Moroney